Raúl Ruiz’s baroque mix of revolutionary politics, pop culture and semiotics is loosely based on the play La vida es sueño (Life is a Dream) by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. In this 17th-century classic, a young prince learns that life is but a dream from which we wake when we die, and that dreams may be as real as life.
Ruiz’s Prince is a Chilean revolutionary in hiding who spends his time in a run-down movie theatre watching old Flash Gordon serials while trying to remember a secret code he once memorized using Life is a Dream as a mnemonic device.
‘’In The Art of Memory [by Francis Yates] you need a place that you know perfectly, it can be your body, your house, your town with your church. Then you need to put a sign there, particular and unforgettable images. I wanted to make a film about what happened in Chile without using Chilean elements.’’
Raúl Ruiz
Mémoires des apparences AKA Life is a dream (Raoul Ruiz, 1986).mkv General Container: Matroska Runtime: 1 h 40 min Size: 1.27 GiB Video Codec: x264 Resolution: 494x376 Aspect ratio: 4:3 Frame rate: 25.000 fps Bit rate: BPP: Audio #1: 2.0ch AAC LC
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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English