Raúl Ruiz — Playwright (21)
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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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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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The Insomniac on the Bridge (1985)
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Raúl Ruiz actor: Michael Lonsdale / Melvil Poupaud …
other title: L'Éveillé du pont de l'Alma / L'éveillé du pont de l'Alma
This quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac (Michel Lonsdale) whose main preoccupation is surreptitiously watching private matters -- he is a voyeur. He and an equally disreputable acquaintance rape a woman alongside the Seine, a crime made all the worse because she is pregnant. The rest of this slow-paced film deals with the consequences of that action.
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Love Torn in a Dream (2000)
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Raúl Ruiz actor: Melvil Poupaud / Melvil Poupaud …
other title: Pugna d’amore in sogno / Combate de Amor em Sonho …
A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the unbelievers to the Christian faith. Retired nuns who open a brothel, to pay the running costs of the convent. These rather ironic paradoxes turn this fairytale into a philosophical fable.
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City of Pirates (1984)
La Ville des pirates
Raúl Ruiz actor: Hugues Quester / Anne Alvaro …
other title: La villa dei pirati / A Cidade dos Piratas …
A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a man with multiple personalities.
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The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (1978)
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Raúl Ruiz actor: Jean Rougeul / Gabriel Gascon …
other title: L’hypothèse du tableau volé / 被窃油画的假设 …
Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, featuring real people, sometimes moving, in an effort to explain the series' significance.