COMBAT D'AMOUR EN SONGE
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Chili/Portugal/France
2000 / 35 mn / 123 min.
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Pirates. Treasure. Good and and evil. Like in a children's fairy tale. And the story itself is the treasure. A young man with a pure heart, a free spirit, confronted by society's pressure to work hard and get rich. A group of blind children who attempt to open the eyes of the non-believers to the Christian religion. A brothel of ex-nuns, established because of the need to pay the rent on the convent. All of these paradoxes, with a certain dose of irony, combine to transform this children's tale into a philosophical fable. Strange physical anomalies, purses always filled with money, indecipherable manuscripts, invisible cities, shady guards -- all the elements necessary for this sort of story, intercut with theological and philosophical discussions that reinforce the mysterious atmosphere and heighten the suspense...
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Script: Raoul Ruiz.
Phot.: Ac�cio de Almeida.
Ed.: Val�ria Sarmiento.
Mus.: Jorge Arriagada.
Cast: Melvil Poupaud, Elsa Zylberstein, Lambert Wilson, Christian Vadim.
Prod.: Paulo Branco, Gemini Films, 34, boulevard S�bastopol, 75004 Paris (France), t�l.: (33-01) 44 54 17 17, fax: (33-01) 44 54 96 66, e-mail: [email protected] / Madragoa Filmes, av. Don Manuel I, N� 3, 2890-014 Alcochete (Portugal), t�l.: (351-21) 234 21 85, fax: (351-21) 234 22 02, e-mail: [email protected].
Sales: Gemini Films.
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Raoul Ruiz
Born in Chile in 1941, Raoul Ruiz studied theology and law in Argentina, wrote scripts for Mexican TV, taught in New York, ran the Maison de la Culture du Havre in France and wrote extensively for the theatre before launching his prolific career in the cinema. He directed his first feature, TROIS TRISTES TIGRES, in 1968 and has since made over three dozen more, including: LA COLONIE P�NITENTIAIRE (1970), LA PETITE COLOMBE BLANCHE (1973), DIALOGUES D'EXIL�S (1974), LA VOCATION SUSPENDUE (1976), LE TOIT DE LA BALEINE (1981), LES TROIS COURONNES DU MATELOT (1982), LA VILLE DES PIRATES (1983), VOYAGE AUTOUR D'UNE MAIN (1984), L'�LE AU TR�SOR (1986), LA CHOUETTE AVEUGLE (1987), L'OEIL QUI MENT (1992), FADO MAJEUR ET MINEUR (1994), THREE LIVES AND ONLY ONE DEATH (1995), GENEALOGIES OF A CRIME (1996), SHATTERED IMAGE (1998), TIME REGAINED (1999) and FILS DE DEUX M�RES (2000). |
