Dark Night, Calcutta (1964)

In Voyage of a Hand, Ruiz constructs another of his concentric labyrinths that hits us right in the multifaceted center of our confusion. We might decide that what we receive was a story full of intentions; or we might decide that it was a spineless joke empty of sense or direction. In any case, it will be difficult to deny the acid sense of humor that animates the film.

Philippe Noiret plays a rich, Parisian banker whose daughter, Carolina, is kidnapped by a ruthless organization. They threaten to have her abused by the sadistic clients of a brothel they run if Father doesn’t pay the ransom on time.

Collage of dramatic scenes, some exaggerated to comic effect, with asynchronous sound from well known classic, operatic, and rock and roll music – with different approaches to love, suffering, and death.

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.

An elderly millionaire manipulates an avant-garde writer and a happily married man.

A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses.

An English historian travels to Morocco to work on a study of the painter Delacroix. He hears of a rare series of engravings and embarks on a search for them that takes him through the mysterious streets of the ancient medina. He becomes obsessed with the figure of a beautiful blond woman dressed in white that he sees there. but it appears that she may have died years before.

여행 도중 잠시 들린 나이트클럽에서 아름다운 여인을 만난 월터는 그녀를 한참 동안 바라본다. 차를 타고 다시 길을 향하던 월터는 방금 전의 그 여인이 피를 흘리며 길에 쓰러진 것을 보고 서둘러 병원에 데리고 간다. 그후 여인과 사랑을 나눈 월터는 꿈인지 현실인지 모를 기묘한 꿈을 꾸고, 다음 날 아침 자신의 목에 난 이빨 자국을 발견한다.

Werner Schroeter mixes Stravinsky, Beethoven, Brahms, Maria Callas and Janis Joplin in this delirious biography of the doomed nineteenth-century mezzo-soprano.