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Image of movie El tango del viudo y su espejo deformante
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El tango del viudo y su espejo deformante

The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror
Raul Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento
Chile 1967, 2020
63 min
V'20

Raúl Ruiz keeps on delivering films from the other world. He has good mediums, which also include his former wife. However, their latest accomplishment is an even greater one than before: to bring Ruiz’s first feature to the screen. Today, the film comes across as almost prophetic, a meditation on death and the irreversibility of time that unabashedly follows the logic of dreams to establish its narrative. “You no longer exist,” says a character about another. Its poetic cheek lies in how its actions disobey continuity and, halfway through the film, start moving backwards as if being rewound that adds a few new variations on what we already saw and heard. The plot? A man’s wife dies (or is murdered) and the man is unable to sleep and considers taking his own life. The rest of the film is Ruiz at his purest and wildest: a wig swirls around through the house; a woman’s feet appear under the bed; a dinner, a visit to a bookshop; a meeting with a friend – but all of these events are never quite just that. Freedom reigns absolute. (Roger Koza)

Raúl Ruiz & Valeria Sarmiento: THE EXPROPRIATION (1972), ¡QUÉ HACER! (1972), EL REALISMO SOCIALISTA (1973), DIA- LOGUES 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), LE TEMPS RETROUVÉ, D’APRÈS L’OEUVRE DE MARCEL PROUST (1999), COMÉDIE DE L’INNOCENCE (2000), KLIMT (2006), MISTÉRIOS DE LISBOA (2010

Credits
  • Ruben Sotoconi
  • Claudia Paz
  • Sergio Hernández
  • Chamila Rodríguez
  • Luis Alarcón
  • Raul Ruiz
  • Omar Saavedra Santis
  • Valéria Sarmiento
  • Diego Bonacina
  • Galut Alarcón
  • Galut Alarcón
  • Raul Ruiz
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