Combat d'amour en songe / Love Torn in Dream / Raoul Ruiz / 2000 / film review

Combat d'amour en songe (2000)

Drama / Fantasy

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

Synopsis

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...

Film 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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