Life Is a Dream (1986 film)
1987 French film
- 1987 (1987)
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Life is a Dream (French: Mémoire des apparences) is a 1987 French surrealist art film written and directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz. It is an oneiric, metafictional, "neo-Baroque" work about the Chilean dictatorship, exile, dream, cinema and mnemonics. It was inspired by Frances A. Yates' book The Art of Memory (1966) and features characters and scenes from Life Is a Dream (1635), a Spanish Golden Age play Ruiz had directed at the Avignon Festival in 1986, in addition to pastiches of B-movies and serials of the 1930s and 1940s.[1]
Cast
- Sylvain Thirolle as Ignacio Vega
- Roch Leibovici
- Bénédicte Sire as Astrea
- Laurence Cortadellas
- Jean-Bernard Guillard as Prince Segismundo
- Jean-Pierre Agazar
- Alain Halle-Halle
- Jean-François Lapalus
- Alain Rimoux
Further reading
- Cisneros, James (2006); "The figure of memory in Chilean cinema: Patricio Guzmán and Raúl Ruiz" in Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 15, no. 1, pp. 59–75.
- Goddard, Michael (2013); The Cinema of Raúl Ruiz: Impossible Cartographies. Wallflower Press, pp. 89–93.
- Kaup, Monika (2012); "Antidictatorship Neobaroque Cinema: Raúl Ruiz's Mémoire des apparences and María Luisa Bemberg's Yo, la peor de todas" in Neobaroque in the Americas: Alternative Modernities in Literature, Visual Art, and Film. University of Virginia Press, pp. 183–242.
- Marinescu, Andreea (2014); "The Dream of Memory in Raúl Ruiz’s Memories of Appearances: Life Is a Dream" in Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, Vol. 55, No. 1 (Spring), pp. 7-31.
References
- ^ Stern, Lesley. "Life is a Dream (Mémoire des apparences, France, 1986)". Rouge.
External links
- Mémoire des apparences at IMDb
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Films directed by Raúl Ruiz
- La maleta
- Le retour
- El tango del viudo
- Three Sad Tigers
- La catanaria
- Militarismo y tortura
- ¡Qué hacer!
- The Penal Colony
- Ahora te vamos a llamar hermano
- Nadie dijo nada
- Los minuteros
- Poesía popular: La teoría y la práctica
- The Expropriation
- Abastecimiento
- Little White Dove
- El realismo socialista
- Palomita brava
- Dialogues of Exiles
- Sotelo
- Utopia
- Dog's Dialogue
- Les divisions de la nature
- The Suspended Vocation
- Petit manuel d'histoire de France
- Jeux
- De grands événements et de gens ordinaires
- Images de débat
- The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
- Zig-Zag
- La ville nouvelle
- Fahlstrom
- Musée Dali
- L'image en silence
- Le borgne
- Teletests
- The Territory
- Images de sable
- Ombres chinoises
- Querelle des jardins
- Le petit théâtre
- On Top of the Whale
- Bérénice
- La ville de Paris
- Letter from a Library Lover
- Three Crowns of the Sailor
- City of Pirates
- Voyages d'une main
- Régime sans pain
- Point de fuite
- Manoel's Destinies
- Treasure Island
- La présence réelle
- The Insomniac on the Bridge
- Richard III
- Life Is a Dream
- Dans un miroir
- Mammame
- Brise-glace
- The Blind Owl
- Le professeur Taranne
- Allegoria
- Tous les nuages sont des horloges
- Il pozzo dei pazzi
- Derrière le mur
- Hub
- The Golden Boat
- La novela errante
- Dark at Noon
- Fado, Major and Minor
- Three Lives and Only One Death
- Genealogies of a Crime
- Le film à venir
- Shattered Image
- Time Regained
- Comedy of Innocence
- Love Torn in a Dream
- Savage Souls
- Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody
- That Day
- A Place Among the Living
- Vertigo of the Blank Page
- Days in the Country
- The Lost Domain
- Klimt
- La Recta Provincia
- Litoral
- Nucingen House
- A Closed Book
- Mysteries of Lisbon
- Night Across the Street
- Lines of Wellington
- The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror
- The Wandering Soap Opera
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