Raúl Ruiz — Director (41)
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Fado, Major and Minor (1995)
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Raúl Ruiz actor: Jean-Luc Bideau / Melvil Poupaud …
other title: Fado majeur et mineur
Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and in his apartment he finds a mysterious young man who tells him he is here to avenge a young woman who has taken her own life. What share of responsibility does Pierre hold in this situation?
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The Lost Domain (2005)
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Raúl Ruiz actor: François Cluzet / Grégoire Colin …
other title: Le Domaine perdu / El libro extraviado
Set in 1973 during the coup d'etat in Chile, Max recalls his encounters in London during World War II with French aviator Antoine, a childhood hero he first met in his native country one morning in 1932 and who initiated him to the wonders of aviation.
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That Day (2003)
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Raúl Ruiz actor: Bernard Giraudeau / Elsa Zylberstein …
other title: Quel giorno / Ce jour-là
A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the asylum and led to his house. However, the psychopath and the daughter fall for each other.
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La Recta Provincia (2007)
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Raúl Ruiz actor: Bélgica Castro / Ignacio Agüero …
other title: La Recta Provincia. Terre de sorciers
La Recta Provincia évoque une province de Chiloé, la plus grande île d'Amérique du sud, où Raoul Ruiz enfant passait ses vacances en famille. Dans cette région où se concentre la moitié des histoires du Chili, entre folklore et mythe, existe aussi une organisation secrète conduite par des sorciers. Cette sorte de secte se nomme également Recta Provincia.
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On Top of the Whale (1982)
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Raúl Ruiz actor: Willeke van Ammelrooy / Jean Badin …
other title: Le Toit de la baleine / Het dak van de Walvis
A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia to study the last speakers of a dying language. That language apparently consists of a single word, which therefore means everything.
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Time Regained (1999)
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Raúl Ruiz actor: Catherine Deneuve / Emmanuelle Béart …
other title: Il tempo ritrovato / Die wiedergefundene Zeit …
In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.
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Treasure Island (1986)
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Raúl Ruiz actor: Vic Tayback / Martin Landau …
other title: L'Île au trésor / La isla del tesoro …
Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the Island they live will trouble his existence and tip him into an universe of adventures.
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Little White Dove (1992)
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Raúl Ruiz actor: Beatriz Lapido / Rodrigo Ureta …
other title: Palomita blanca / 白鸽 …
A young working class girl falls in love with an upper class boy who is part of the plot to assassinate General Schneider, head of the Chilean Army. The film was shot in 1973 over six weeks with a budget of $170,000. As a result of the 1973 Chilean coup d'état and military dictatorship (1973–1990), the film was presumed lost for many years and not released until 1992.
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Querelle de jardins (1982)
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Raul Ruiz filmed the gardens of the Château de Versailles. The first one, French, focuses on the King's Square (a space where everything is arranged in order to be seen). The other one, English, is the exact opposite, because from any point within it, one falls out of view. Within these two constructions, the labyrinth and the concentric circles, Ruiz conceives a 'photo-roman' plot: a husband and his mistress rendez-vous in the English garden (one understands why) and, through a series of accidents and afraid of being seen, he relocates to the other garden.
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The Blind Owl (1987)
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Raúl Ruiz actor: Jean-François Lapalus / Jean-Bernard Guillard …
other title: La Chouette aveugle / La chouette aveugle
In Paris, an Arab immigrant working as a projectionist becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman he sees on the cinema screen. Following a visit from a man claiming to be his uncle, his world begins to mirror a macabre and cyclical narrative.
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7 False Connections (1984)
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Raúl Ruiz actor: Olimpia Carlisi / Henri Alekan …
other title: 7 faux raccords
Short film showing cinematographer Henri Alekan, director Raúl Ruiz and actress Olimpia Carlisi at work creating sublime visual effects of the sort seen in City of Pirates.