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  • 2019
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2019
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 20 m
The Wandering Soap Opera

Summary Filmed by Chilean master Raúl Ruiz in 1990 but left unfinished until it was completed by his wife and collaborator Valeria Sarmiento in 2017, The Wandering Soap Opera is a dreamily interconnected series of vignettes that spoof on telenovela conventions while reflecting Ruiz's feelings upon returning to his native Chile after more than 15...

Directed By: Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento

Written By: Pía Rey, Raúl Ruiz

  • 2019
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2019
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 20 m

The Wandering Soap Opera

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Summary Filmed by Chilean master Raúl Ruiz in 1990 but left unfinished until it was completed by his wife and collaborator Valeria Sarmiento in 2017, The Wandering Soap Opera is a dreamily interconnected series of vignettes that spoof on telenovela conventions while reflecting Ruiz's feelings upon returning to his native Chile after more than 15...

Directed By: Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento

Written By: Pía Rey, Raúl Ruiz

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100
May 17, 2019
The Wandering Soap Opera also sometimes feels like it was made by a filmmaker who doesn't understand where he is anymore. That mixture of excitement, confusion, and terror defines all six of the movie's vignettes.
By Simon Abrams FULL REVIEW
80
Jun 6, 2019
Deadpan and over-the-top, these scenes make for a view of turbulent reality that is episodic and nonsensical — and wholly Ruizian.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
80
May 15, 2019
It was clearly made with slender financial means and abundant enthusiasm, and it functions simultaneously as a critique of the self-serious idiocy of authority and a celebration of the anarchic power of imagination.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Poetastros, RR Producciones
Release Date May 17, 2019
Duration 1 h 20 m
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Awards

Mar del Plata Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Locarno International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Transatlantyk Festival: Lodz
• 1 Nomination

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