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El Tango Del Viudo
''The Tango of the Widower and its Distorting Mirror'' ( es, El tango del viudo y su espejo deformante) is a Chilean film directed by Raúl Ruiz (director), Raúl Ruiz in 1967 and completed by his widow Valeria Sarmiento for a February 2020 premiere at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Rubén Sotoconil * Claudia Paz * Luis Alarcón * Shenda Román * Delfina Guzmán * Luis Vilches * Sergio Hernández (actor), Sergio Hernández (voice only) References External links * Chilean drama films Films directed by Raúl Ruiz Films directed by Valeria Sarmiento 2020 films {{Chile-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raúl Ruiz (director)
Raúl Ernesto Ruiz Pino (french: Raoul Ruiz; 25 July 1941 – 19 August 2011) was an experimental Chilean filmmaker, writer and teacher whose work is best known in France. He directed more than 100 films. Biography The son of a ship's captain and a schoolteacher in southern Chile, Raúl Ruiz abandoned his university studies in theology and law to write 100 plays with the support of a Rockefeller Foundation grant. He went on to learn his craft working in Chilean and Mexican television and studying at film school in Argentina (1964). Back in Chile, he made his feature debut ''Three Sad Tigers'' (1968), sharing the Golden Leopard at the 1969 Locarno Film Festival. According to Ruiz in a 1991 interview, ''Three Sad Tigers'' "is a film without a story, it is the reverse of a story. Somebody kills somebody. All the elements of a story are there but they are used like a landscape, and the landscape is used like story."Klonarides, Carole Ann http://bombsite.com/issues/34/articles/13 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valeria Sarmiento
Valeria Sarmiento (born 29 October 1948) is a film editor, director and screenwriter best known for her work in France, Portugal and her native Chile. She has worked both in film and television, directing 20 feature films, documentaries and television series'. She is the widow of Chilean film director Raúl Ruiz (1941-2011) with whom she collaborated for decades as regular editor and co-writer. She has also edited films for Luc Moullet, Robert Kramer and Ventura Pons and is a Guggenheim Fellow (1988). Biography Sarmiento was born in the Chilean municipality of Valparaíso and was first exposed to film at the age of five, becoming familiar with the work of Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock and others. She rarely saw French films due to censorship but, thanks to what she refers to as a "moment of magic", was able to watch Jean-Luc Godard's ''Breathless'' (1960) at the age of twelve. She went on to study film and philosophy at the University of Valparaíso and married filmma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |