Raul Ruiz focus
Overview of films
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Ce jour-là
Black comedy about money, death and false spirituality that brings together an unlikely romantic couple: a spoilt society girl and a serial killer
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Mémoire des apparences
A literature teacher has to learn off by heart the names of 15 thousand members of the resistance against the Chilean junta and to do so he uses a
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Mammame
A dance performance choreographed by Jean-Claude Gallotta forms the basis for an intoxicating dance film that, according to Ruiz, is ‘about d
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Une place parmi les vivants
Philosophical film-noir caricature, inspired by gangster films and detective stories from the 1950s. A translator of pulp fiction is asked to write
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Responso
In 1989, Raul Ruiz worked on a homage to Hubert Bals, who died a year earlier. He was played beautifully by Jean Badin. Hubert smokes and says he i
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Bérénice
Unusually lyrical Ruiz film about an impossible encounter, impossible harmony: a tragedy of closed doors. Based on the play by Racine.
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Lettre d’un cineaste
Ten years after the coup in Chile, Ruiz looks back at his past, with the eyes of someone who lives in exile. And via another world: that of cinema.
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Les trois couronnes du matelot
Orson Welles meets Hans Christian Andersen, Edgar Allan Poe and others in Ruiz’ first major commercial success in his new home of France.
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L’hypothèse du tableau volé
Detective structured like an unfolding puzzle draws on art history for clues. It is also a playful parody on French art connoisseurs.
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Des grands événements et des gens ordinaires: les élections
Ruiz takes the mickey out of the form of the television report, exaggerating the conventions and clichés, and then he lets the film run off the rai
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Le temps retrouvé
Film version of Marcel Proust’s magnum opus. His reminiscences of decadent society life in nineteenth-century Paris mingle into the fictional
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Wind Water
Ruis allows the West, China and the Arab world to start conversing with each other and they emerge in an insoluble dispute.