"It's about love... and sex." The Cinema Guild has debuted an official trailer for a long lost spoof film titled The Wandering Soap Opera, making fun of classic Chilean telenovelas. This film was originally shot in 1990 by Chilean master filmmaker Raúl Ruiz, who passed away in 2011 at the age of 70. It was eventually completed by his wife and collaborator Valeria Sarmiento. Shot in gorgeous Super 16mm and featuring one zany performance after another from a cast having the time of their lives, The Wandering Soap Opera is a "glorious sendup of the telenovela, which, at the end of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, Ruiz called the very best lens through which to understand 'Chilean reality.'" It contains vignettes and "episodes", strung together into a full 80-minute film. Featuring Luis Alarcón, Patricia Rivadeneira, Francisco Reyes, Consuelo Castillo, Roberto Poblete, Liliana García, and Mauricio Pesutic. Have fun with this one. Here's the...
- 4/26/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Chilean production company Poetastros has restored Raul Ruiz's recently found unfinished debut film, The Tango of the Widower (1967), which is set to premiere in a top tier European festival next year, according to producer Chamila Rodriguez. The completion and postproduction of the pic is being overseen under the artistic direction of Ruiz’s widow and collaborator, Valeria Sarmiento.
Written and directed by the then-27-year-old Ruiz, Tango of the Widower, starring Rubén Sotoconil, Claudia Paz, Luis Alarcón, Shenda Román and Delfina Guzmán, was shot in Santiago de Chile. The production was set to become ...
Written and directed by the then-27-year-old Ruiz, Tango of the Widower, starring Rubén Sotoconil, Claudia Paz, Luis Alarcón, Shenda Román and Delfina Guzmán, was shot in Santiago de Chile. The production was set to become ...
Chilean production company Poetastros has restored Raul Ruiz's recently found unfinished debut film, The Tango of the Widower (1967), which is set to premiere in a top tier European festival next year, according to producer Chamila Rodriguez. The completion and postproduction of the pic is being overseen under the artistic direction of Ruiz’s widow and collaborator, Valeria Sarmiento.
Written and directed by the then-27-year-old Ruiz, Tango of the Widower, starring Rubén Sotoconil, Claudia Paz, Luis Alarcón, Shenda Román and Delfina Guzmán, was shot in Santiago de Chile. The production was set to become ...
Written and directed by the then-27-year-old Ruiz, Tango of the Widower, starring Rubén Sotoconil, Claudia Paz, Luis Alarcón, Shenda Román and Delfina Guzmán, was shot in Santiago de Chile. The production was set to become ...
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