Raúl Ruiz (director)

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Raúl Ruiz
Born
Raúl Ernesto Ruiz Pino

(1941-07-25)25 July 1941
Puerto Montt, Chile
Died19 August 2011(2011-08-19) (aged 70)
Paris, France
Other namesRaoul Ruiz
Alma materUniversity of Chile
OccupationFilm director
Years active1963–2011
StyleDrama, comedy, experimental film
Spouse
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(m. 1969)​

Raúl Ernesto Ruiz Pino (

filmmaker, writer and teacher whose work is best known in France. He directed more than 100 films.[1]

Biography

The son of a

Miguel Littín and Patricio Guzmán, his work being far more ironic, surrealistic and experimental. In 1973, shortly after the military coup d'état led by Augusto Pinochet, Ruiz and his wife (fellow director Valeria Sarmiento) fled Chile and settled in Paris, France.[4]

Ruiz soon developed a reputation among European critics and

Cahiers du cinéma was devoted to Ruiz in March 1983.[6]

In the 1990s, Ruiz began working with larger budgets and "name" stars like

Cannes Film festival.[8] He also made forays into the English-language mainstream with the thrillers Shattered Image (1998) and A Closed Book (2010). In the final decade of his life, Ruiz wrote and directed several low-budget productions in his native Chile, but his final international success was the Franco-Portuguese epic Mysteries of Lisbon
(2010).

Ruiz claimed that he was "always trying to make this connection between different ways of producing: film, theater, installations, and videos" – he hoped his "films would have to be seen many times, like objects in the house, like a painting. They have to have a minimum of complexity."

Poetics of Cinema 2 (2007), and actively engaged in film and video projects with university and film school students in many countries, including the US, France, Colombia, Chile, Italy and Scotland.[9]

Ruiz died in August 2011 as a result of complications from a lung infection, having successfully undergone a liver transplant in early 2010 after being diagnosed with a life-threatening tumour. The Presidents of France and Chile both praised him.

National Day of Mourning was declared in Chile.[12]

Legacy

Ruiz's final completed feature Night Across the Street (2012) was selected to be screened posthumously in the Directors' Fortnight section of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.[13][14] His widow Valeria Sarmiento, who was also his collaborator and frequent editor for several decades, completed Lines of Wellington (2012), the Napoleonic epic that Ruiz was preparing when he died[15][16] and the film was in competition for the Golden Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival[17] and as a Zabaltegi Special at the 2012 San Sebastián International Film Festival.[18] Both films were also shown at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival[19] and the 2012 New York Film Festival.[20]

On 25 July 2014,

Viennale from October 2023 to January 2024[25] and will be followed by another at the Cinemateca Portuguesa which begins in February 2024.[26]

The feature film

The Tango of the Widower and its Distorting Mirror, filmed in 1967 but shelved following budgetary problems, was restored by Sarmiento for a February 2020 premiere in the 70th Berlin International Film Festival.[27]

Image from Realismo socialista

A third Ruiz film, Socialist Realism as One of the Fine Arts, has been restored and completed by Sarmiento for its official premiere in 2023. Ruiz was not able to give the film a final edit as a result of the Chilean coup in 1973 and it was presumed lost for many years. A fifty-minute rough cut was shown at the Valdivia International Film Festival in 2008, but four-and-a-half hours of footage was recovered from the archives of Duke University in 2016.[28]

Awards

Filmography

  • La maleta (1963) – short film lost and completed in 2008
  • Le retour (1964) – unfinished short film
  • El tango del viudo y su espejo deformante
     [The Tango of the Widower and its Distorting Mirror] (1967) – unfinished and restored for a 2020 release
  • Tres tristes tigres [Three Sad Tigers] (1968)
  • La catanaria (1969)
  • Militarismo y tortura (1969) – short film
  • La colonia penal [The Penal Colony] (1970)
  • Ahora te vamos a llamar hermano (1971) – short film
  • Nadie dijo nada (1971)
  • ¡Qué hacer! (1972)
  • Los minuteros (1972) – short film
  • Poesía popular: La teoría y la práctica (1972) – short film
  • Abastecimiento (1973) – short film
  • Palomita blanca [Little White Dove] (1973)
  • Realismo socialista como una de las bellas artes
     [Socialist Realism] (1973) - unfinished and restored for a 2023 release
  • Palomita brava (1973) – short film
  • La expropiación [The Expropriation] (1974)
  • Diálogos de exiliados [Dialogues of Exiles] (1975)
  • Sotelo (1976) – short film
  • Utopia (1976)
  • Colloque de chiens (1977) – short film
  • Les divisions de la nature (1978) – short film
  • La vocation suspendue [The Suspended Vocation] (1978)
  • L'hypothèse du tableau volé [The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting] (1978)
  • Petit manuel d'histoire de France (1979)
  • Jeux (1979)
  • De grands événements et de gens ordinaires [Of Great Events and Ordinary People] (1979)
  • Images de débat (1979)
  • Zig-Zag – le jeu de l'oie (une fiction didactique à propos de la cartographie) (1980) – short film
  • La ville nouvelle (1980) – short film
  • Fahlstrom (1980) – short film
  • Musée Dali (1980)
  • L'image en silence (1980)
  • Le borgne (1980)
  • Teletests (1980) – short film
  • The Territory (1981)
  • Images de sable (1981) – short film
  • Ombres chinoises (1982) – short film
  • Querelle des jardins (1982) – short film
  • Le petit théâtre (1982) – short film
  • Het dak van de Walvis [On Top of the Whale] (1982)
  • Bérénice (1983)
  • La ville de Paris (1983)
  • Lettre d'un cinéaste ou Le retour d'un amateur de bibliothèques [Letter from a Library Lover] (1983) – short film
  • Les trois couronnes du matelot [Three Crowns of the Sailor] (1983)
  • La ville des pirates [City of Pirates] (1983)
  • Voyages d'une main (1984)
  • Point de fuite [Vanishing Point] (1984)
  • Les destins de Manoel [Manoel's Destinies/Manoel on the Island of Marvels] (1984)
  • L'Île au trésor
     [Treasure Island] (1985)
  • La présence réelle (1985)
  • Régime sans pain (1985)
  • L'éveillé du pont de l'Alma [The Insomniac on the Bridge] (1985)
  • Richard III (1986)
  • Mémoire des apparences [Life is a Dream] (1986)
  • Dans un miroir (1986)
  • Mammame (1986)
  • Brise-glace (1987)
  • La chouette aveugle [The Blind Owl] (1987)
  • Le professeur Taranne (1987)
  • Allegoria (1988)
  • Tous les nuages sont des horloges (1988)
  • Il pozzo dei pazzi (1989) – short film
  • Derrière le mur (1989)
  • Hub (1989)
  • The Golden Boat (1990)
  • La telenovela errante
     [The Wandering Soap Opera] (1990) – unfinished feature completed by Sarmiento and released in 2017
  • A TV Dante (Cantos 9–14) (1991)
  • Las soledades (1992) – short film
  • L'oeil qui ment [Dark at Noon] (1992)
  • Fado majeur et mineur [Fado, Major and Minor] (1994)
  • Wind Water (1995) – short film
  • Trois vies et une seule mort [Three Lives and Only One Death] (1996)
  • Généalogies d'un crime
     [Genealogies of a Crime] (1997)
  • Le film à venir (1997) – short film
  • Shattered Image (1998)
  • Le temps retrouvé [Time Regained] (1999)
  • Comédie de l'innocence [Comedy of Innocence] (2000)
  • Combat d'amour en songe [Love Torn in a Dream] (2000)
  • Les Âmes fortes [Savage Souls] (2001)
  • Miotte vu par Raúl Ruiz (2002)
  • Cofralandes, rapsodia chilena [Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody] (2002)
  • Ce jour-là [That Day] (2003)
  • Une place parmi les vivants [A Place Among the Living/A Taste for Murder] (2003)
  • Vertige de la page blanche [Vertigo of the Blank Page] (2003)
  • Días de campo [Days in the Country] (2004)
  • Le domaine perdu
     [The Lost Domain] (2005)
  • Klimt (2006)
  • Le Don (2007) – short film
  • La Recta Provincia (2007)
  • Litoral
     (2008)
  • La maison Nucingen [Nucingen House] (2008)
  • Agathopedia (2008)
  • El pasaporte amarillo [The Yellow Passport] (2009)
  • A Closed Book [Blind Revenge] (2010)
  • L'estate breve (2010)
  • Mistérios de Lisboa [Mysteries of Lisbon] (2010)
  • Ballet aquatique (2011)
  • La noche de enfrente [Night Across the Street] (2012)

Bibliography

References

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