Tres tristes tigres

With his first feature-length film, Ruiz clearly positioned himself against the confines of agit cinema and in favor of artistic autonomy at the second, strongly politicized festival of "Nuevo Cine Chileno" in Viña del Mar. From the 1967 debut novel by Cuban author Guillermo Cabrera Infante, he developed his homage to a nocturnal Santiago, full of booze and violence. The poetic exuberance of the original is picked up in the chiaroscuro of Diego Bonacina's prancing wide-angle camera. Today, the film, which was realized with a minimum of resources and won the Golden Leopard in Locarno, also impresses as a lucid commentary on the subject of masculinity. (Silvia Hallensleben)

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)