Mémoire des apparences (Life is a Dream)
Regie: Raúl Ruiz; Drehbuch: Raúl Ruiz nach dem Theaterstück La vida es un sueño von Pedro Calderón de la Barca; Kamera: Jacques Bouquin; Schnitt: Martine Bouquin, Rodolfo Wedeles; Musik: Jorge Arriagada; Darsteller*innen: Sylvain Thirolle, Roch Leibovici, Bénédicte Sire, Laurence Cortadellas. FR, 1986, 16mm, Farbe und sw, 104 min. Französisch mit engl. UTA Valparaiso movie theater fluttered with birds, where the screams of tortured people can be heard from the police station behind the screen over the soundtrack of projected B-movies. A former anti-Pinochet fighter, in-between his dreams on the bed of a darkened hotel room, tries to reactivate buried memories of clandestine knowledge. Calderón de la Barca's baroque drama Life is a Dream is the technical mnemonic device, which is recited and also staged in a theatrical performance in the film. A post-surrealist and many-mirrored meditation on cinema, resistance and memory. (S.H.)
Courtesy Cinémathèque française
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