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.
Don Pélage
During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to rule the city of Mogador. Ten years later Rodrigo leaves America and travels to Africa in search of Prouhèze to find out that she died and eventually meeting her daughter.
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.
The Blind Man
1980년대 라울 루이즈의 마스터피스로 꼽히는 작품. 살인을 저지른 한 학생과 그를 설득하여 인생 이야기를 듣는 술 취한 선원의 만남을 그린다. 스토리텔링의 우아한 유희, 바로크적인 시각 양식이 루이즈적인 기운을 만들어낸다.
Paulin
장 라신느의 1670년도 비극을 화려한 바로크 양식으로 각색한 작품. 로마제국의 황제는 대중의 뜻에 따라, 사랑했던 팔레스타인 여왕과의 결혼을 포기한다.
A series of compounding dramatic situations, drawn from Georges Polti's '36 Dramatic Situations' and acted out in shadowplay and voiceover.
With his body now devoid of substance and able to fly, N. wanders looking for a way to return to life and reintegrate into the world.
