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Combat d'amour en songe
2000 Drama / Fantasy
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Credits
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Director: Raoul Ruiz
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Script: Raoul Ruiz
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Photo: Acácio de Almeida
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Music: Jorge Arriagada
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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)
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Country: France
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Language: French
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Runtime: 120 min
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Aka: Love Torn in Dream
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Summary
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...
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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