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La maleta
Ruiz started his film career with an almost literal mise-en-abyme story: a man carries another man in his suitcase. When tired, they switch roles. ScrPublished on: -
El arca
After an idyllic start, things go drastically wrong with this Noah’s Ark. The papier-mâché actors elicit realistic emotions.Published on: -
Verano
The informal intimacy of amateur film formats, such as Hi8 or MP4, is often used by film makers. But seldom with such intense beauty as…Published on: -
Ocaso
With the eye of a practised photographer, the debutant Court makes an atmospheric elegy for an unnecessary person. In a derelict mansion in the mistyPublished on: -
Post Mortem
In the sequel to Tony Manero, the nauseating immorality of oppression and dictatorship – in this case Pinochet’s Chile – is given a lugubrious and…Published on: -
Cielo ciego
Ignacio meets the beautiful Malena with an artificial leg in a bus and tells his story: about older crooks who really lead a pretty bourgeois…Published on: -
Tres tristes tigres
Early Ruiz film from the time when he still lived in Chile, based on a melodramatic play about a man who pimps for his sister,…Published on: -
La colonia penal
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Nadie dijo nada
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Hay un hombre en la luna
Short surrealist film about a man, the moon and a boy on a tricycle.Published on: