Het dak van de walvis

In a near future, an anthropologist, with wife and child, accepts an invitation to Patagonia to research a dying indigenous language. Ruiz makes good use of the minimal plot for aesthetic experimentation and parody. Patagonia, accompanied by pristine music, is comparable to a Dutch marshland, the heroic researcher realizes too late that the "primitive" research objects fulfill his expectations a bit too exactly, the communist landowner nostalgically behaves like a feudal lord – and off-screen, shots are fired. An intellectual "puzzle" thrown together in just 24 days, not least about the state of Ruiz's home continent. (Barbara Kronsfoth)

All retrospective films that will be shown at the Filmmuseum after the Viennale - from 1.11. - can of course also be reserved as usual at filmmuseum.at or by calling 01/533 70 54 and purchased at the box office of the Austrian Film Museum. The prices of the Austrian Film Museum apply.

Raúl Ruiz: TRES TRISTES TIGRES (1968), EL REALISMO SOCIALISTA (1973), DIALOGUES OF EXILES (1975), BÉRÉNICE (1983), POINT DE FUITE (1984), MÉMOIRE DES APPARENCES (1986), L’OEIL QUI MENT (1992), FADO MAJEUR ET MINEUR (1994), TROIS VIES ET UNE SEULE MORT (1996), GÉNÉALOGIES D’UN CRIME (1997), COMÉDIE DE L’INNOCENCE (2000), KLIMT (2006), MISTÉRIOS DE LISBOA (2010)