Litoral

Litoral

Limited Series 2008 · 4 eps · ★ 6.0 · Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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An ode to Chilean maritime myth and storytelling. Sailors onboard the Lucerna tell stories, but before long their stories intersect.

Created by Raúl Ruiz

Network: Televisión Nacional de Chile

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ChuquiagoChuquiago · 1977
Chuquiago
★ 8.11977
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Racial, social and cultural aspects of La Paz (called Chuquiago by the Aymaras) seen through four stories.
Of Great Events and Ordinary PeopleOf Great Events and Ordinary People · 1980
Of Great Events and Ordinary People
★ 7.51980
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In 1978, Ruiz was commissioned to make a television documentary about the French elections from the viewpoint of a Chilean exile in Paris’ eleventh arrondissement. But, contrary to the producers’ expectation, the Left lost. Ruiz seized on this anti-climax to make a documentary about nothing except itself – a film whose central subject is forever lost in digression and ‘dispersal’, harking back to his Chilean experiments of the ‘60s. Its political content is deliberately left negligible: it’s hard to tell at the end who did actually win the election, let alone why.
Manoel’s DestiniesManoel’s Destinies · 1984
Manoel’s Destinies
★ 7.31984
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When the child Manuel wanders into a garden that is off-limits to him, he meets an unidentified fisherman, and another boy -- the boy is actually himself several years down the road. Manuel experiences three different versions of his encounters in the garden, revealing that fate can have several twists and turns in one's life, depending on decisions that are made early on.
City of PiratesCity of Pirates · 1984
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★ 7.21984
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A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a man with multiple personalities.
Manuel on the Island of WondersManuel on the Island of Wonders · 1984
Manuel on the Island of Wonders
★ 7.21984
SeriesKidsSci-Fi & Fantasy
This three part French TV serial for children (alternate versions exist as a feature, Manoel’s Destinies, and a 4 part Portuguese TV serial, Adventure in Madeira) is the favourite of many devotees of Raúl Ruiz. This is because it ties the enchantment and mystery of Lewis Carroll, Carlo Collodi and the Brothers Grimm to the filmmaker’s experiments with narrative strategies and what he calls the pentaludic model of storytelling (where characters are thrown dice-like into combinations and situations governed by the play of Chance and Destiny).
Palombella rossaPalombella rossa · 1989
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★ 7.11989
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Michele is an MP for the Italian Communist Party who loses his memory in a car crash, though hardly anyone around him seems to notice. During a crucial water polo match on the eve of election day, he gradually begins to remember his past life, revealing a man whose personal and political identity crisis mirrors that of Italian communism itself.
The Hypothesis of the Stolen PaintingThe Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting · 1978
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Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, featuring real people, sometimes moving, in an effort to explain the series' significance.
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The Insomniac on the BridgeThe Insomniac on the Bridge · 1985
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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.
The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting MirrorThe Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror · 2020
The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror
★ 6.72020
MovieDramaFantasy
A man's wife commits suicide and appears to him as a ghost. The ghost follows him everywhere – under the bed, under tables… After seeing the ghost so frequently, the man begins to resemble her.
Brise-glaceBrise-glace · 1990
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★ 6.61990
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Collaborative experimental project on which three director made different films about the Swedish icebreaker "Frej".
Genealogies of a CrimeGenealogies of a Crime · 1997
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★ 6.51997
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An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to study possible homicidal tendencies.
Mysteries of LisbonMysteries of Lisbon · 2011
Mysteries of Lisbon
★ 6.52011
SeriesDrama
The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure and misfortune in the convulsed Europe of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. (A longer television version of the film of the same name, released in 2010.)
Three Lives and Only One DeathThree Lives and Only One Death · 1996
Three Lives and Only One Death
★ 6.51996
MovieComedyCrime
Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers who inherit a chateau – and the last tale that connects all that has gone before.
To Each His Own CinemaTo Each His Own Cinema · 2007
To Each His Own Cinema
★ 6.42007
MovieComedyDrama
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.

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