Valeria Sarmiento
Valéria SARMIENTO (1948, Chile) studied film and philosophy at the University of Valparaiso. In 1972 she made her first documentary, Un sueño como de dolores. Since 1974 she has been based in Paris, where she has worked as a director and editor of films by Raúl Ruiz, Luc Moullet and Robert Kramer. After her husband Raúl Ruiz passed away, Sarmiento finished his film The Wandering Soap Opera (2017) as well as The Tango of the Widower (2020). In 2008 Standford University held a symposium on the portrayal of feminism in Sarmiento’s films and in 2018 the Cinémathèque Française created a retrospective on her work.
Filmography
Un sueño como de dolores (1972, doc), La femme au foyer (1976), Le mal du pays (1979, doc), El hombre, cuando es hombre/A Man, When He Is a Man (1982, doc), Mi boda contigo/Notre mariage (1984), Musique pour film et orchestra (1987, doc), 90 secondes, une oeuvre (1989), Amélia Lopes O’Neil (1990), El planeta de los niños (1992), Latin Women (1992, doc), El derecho de soñar (1993, doc), Elle (1995), Voyage dans le temps (1998, doc), L’inconnu de Strasbourg (1998), Mon premier french can-can (1999, doc), Rosa la China (2002), Au louvre avec barcelo (2004, doc), Secretos/Secrets (2008), Lines of Wellington (2012, co-dir), La telenovela errante/The Wandering Soap Opera (2017, co-dir), O caderno negro/The Black Book of Father Dinis (2018), El tango del viudo y su espejo deformante/The Tango of the Widower (2020, co-dir)
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Valeria Sarmiento at IFFR
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La femme au foyer
A woman of right-wing convictions spends her days at home, outside a putsch is imminent.
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Klimt (director’s cut)
A virtuoso homage to an artist and his life, the film is set against the rich historical tapestry of the fin de siècle. Screening of the director&#
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La noche de enfrente
Last film directed by Ruiz, the most screened director in the history of the Rotterdam Film Festival. A farewell letter from a free-associating, in
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La ville des pirates
Surrealist Ruiz film with echoes of Buñuel’s L’Age d’Or. The pirate city is a ghost castle on a rocky island, in which a group of
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Rosa la China
Colourful, vital story of love, betrayal and civil restlessness around a nightclub in Havana in pre-Communist Cuba in the 1950s. The singer Rosa ch
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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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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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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.
