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Raúl Ruiz
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Español
Description
Chilean-born director Raúl Ruiz may be cinema's most famous exile, with his most important work produced in France. In this semi-documentary film, patterned after Bertolt Brecht's Refugee Conversations, Ruiz explores what it means to live in exile. Shot in 1974, Dialogues of the exiled chronicles the conversations of Chileans in Paris, who resolutely hang onto their cultural identity while navigating life in another country.
Series
Publisher
Facets Video [Distributor]
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
L'hypothèse du tableau volé: A bumbling art collector attempts to reconstruct the content of a painting missing from a series of seven painted 100 years earlier by an eccentric artist. To help him in his task, a group of actors pose as the figures in the paintings to create a series of human tableaux. The collector makes far-fetched thematic connections between the tableaux as a way to figure out what the missing artwork might look like while alluding...
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"On the verge of a forced retirement, Don Celso, an elderly office worker begins to relive both real and imagined memories from his life--a trip to the movies as a young boy with Beethoven, listening to tall tales from Long John Silver, a brief stay in a haunted hotel. Stories hide within stories and the thin line between imagination and reality steadily erodes, opening up a marvelous new world of personal remembrance and fantastic melodrama"--Container....