Combat d'amour en songe
2000 Drama / Fantasy   
 
Credits
  • Director: Raoul Ruiz
  • Script: Raoul Ruiz
  • Photo: Acácio de Almeida
  • Music: Jorge Arriagada
  • Cast: Melvil Poupaud (Paul), Elsa Zylberstein (Lucrezia), Lambert Wilson (Sebatol), Christian Vadim (David), Diogo Dória (Mariani), Rogério Samora (Baniel), Marie-France Pisier (The Stranger), Duarte de Almeida (Government Representative), Paula Pais (Arianne)
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Runtime: 120 min
  • Aka: Love Torn in Dream
 
 
 
Summary
Nine bizarre stories are interwoven as a visual fantasy.  A jewel is stolen from a "living" painting; a mirror has the power to steal whatever it reflects; a young man’s future is foreseen by an internet website; a seminary student dresses up as a priest so that he can listen to confessions; a Catholic man discovers that he is really a Jew; brothers fight as they search for some rings; and a treasure hunt leads to...

Review
After his haunting dream-like adaptation of Marcel Proust - Le Temps retrouvé (1999) - Raoul Ruiz’s Combat d'amour en songe is an even more baffling, free-flowing work in which the conventional linear narrative format is all but totally dispensed with.  Experimental and slightly off-putting, this is possibly Ruiz's least accessible, most self-indulgent work to date.

© James Travers 2006


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