Raúl Ruiz (director)
Raúl Ernesto Ruiz Pino ( born July 25, 1941 in Puerto Montt, † August 19, 2011 in Paris ) is known as Raoul Ruiz, was a Chilean- French film director, screenwriter and film producer.
Life and work
Complete Works
The life's work of Raúl Ruiz comprises no less than 115 films for cinema and television. Own account, he wrote until 1962, exactly 100 plays, not one more, not one less. He had passed the age of 15 years, the decision to do so. Although he was sometimes referred to as baroque or as a Surrealist, can be idiosyncratic and complex body of work hardly assign a category. He himself took the term Baroque on for themselves and described him in an original way:
" Le baroque ... est une façon d' économiser et pas une dépense. Il ne faut pas le mélanger et le baroque rococo mais le plutôt comparer à un certain restaurant à midi; il ya très peu d' espace où on met le maximum de gens, pour avoir le maximum de clients. "
" The Baroque ... is to save a kind and no output. One must not confuse the Baroque and Rococo, but must the former with a restaurant at lunchtime compare. , There is very little space, trying as many people as possible to accommodate in order to have the greatest possible number of customers "
The beginnings
The son of a captain and his family moved to the country after he was diagnosed with tuberculosis at the age of five years. With 19 years of Raúl Ruiz directed his first short film, La Maleta ( The case ); he took the issue to one of his own plays. He studied law and theology before 1962 and enrolled for a year at the Film Academy in Santa Fe at Argentine Fernando Birri. In 1963, he was host of a daily journal broadcast on Chilean television. In 1965 he wrote in Mexico scenarios for feature broadcasts and, after his return to Chile, screenplays for the adaptation of classical pieces on television.
With his 1968 Tres tristes tigres fourth film in 1969, he won the Golden Leopard at the International Locarno Film Festival. The film is based on a play by Alejandro Sieveking and describes the lives of three outsiders in the summer of Santiago de Chile. In 1971, he turned a liberal version of the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka. From the Allende government, he was appointed as a consultant for cinema culture.
Flight to France - experiments and successes
After the 1973 coup in Chile in 1974, he left the country and went into exile in France. In the same year he turned there the film La question de l' exil with amateur and professional actors, among them Françoise Arnoul and Daniel Gélin. The film sat in an ironic way with the situation of numerous exiled Chileans in France apart - to the dismay of many Chilean artists. After the premiere in a Paris cinema, the film fell into oblivion.
In the following years he focused on short films and commercial work for television, including 1979 Petit manuel de l' Histoire de France. Humorous he got involved in various experiments. Colloque de chiens, for example, is a short film consisting of a series of photographs to which a voiceover describes several disturbing events was bound. La Vocation is the adaptation of a bulky text by Pierre Klossovski as a short film, a convoluted theological dispute between the voice of vocation and the voice of doubt - a short film that is reminiscent of similar attempts by Luis Buñuel. In 1979, he also realized the TV movie L' Hypothèse du tableau volé; he had co-written the screenplay with Klossovski. The film begins as a story about Klossovski, but turns into a story about two men who argue about painting and puzzle over a collection, in which an image appears to be missing. One of them wanders through the scenes that are represented by the images and scenes encountered in their living people. The film had a shock -like effect among French intellectuals and provoked a lively debate about whether art and reality inherent in a sense.
Part of the French film audience took Ruiz ' work on with enthusiasm. His style of abstraction and the deception of the eye were a welcome contrast to the naturalistic French cinema of the 1970s. In March 1983 his Cahiers du Cinéma devoted an entire issue. Ruiz has been characterized as a second Orson Welles, as the master of baroque abstraction, the simple with minimal budgets, poetic hallucinations set in scene. In the 1980s, he ranked movie to movie.
Great cinema
In the 1990s, his work took a surprising turn. He made films with a full orchestra, awarded roles Stars: 1994 Arielle Dombasle in Fado majeur et mineur, 1995 Marcello Mastroianni in Trois vies et une seule mort, 1997 Catherine Deneuve and Michel Piccoli in Généalogies d' un crime, as the genealogies of a crime appeared in the German version. Jessie, published in 1998, is a bizarre story based on Alfred Hitchcock, starring Anne Parillaud and James Baldwin.
In 1995 he published a small treatise on the cinema, Le Poétique du Cinéma. A year later he became a French citizen.
With Le temps retrouvé, Time Regained, he dared to adapt to the cinema at the ambitious undertaking, Marcel Proust, with Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, and John Malkovich in the lead roles. Les Ames fortes with Laetitia Casta, released in 2001, based on a novel by Jean Giono.
His films have appeared in that time on large, prestigious festivals, including the International Film Festival of Cannes.
The late years
His penchant for enigmatic, paradoxical, unspeakable he remained faithful. Ce jour là is a macabre, grotesque comedy, set in a strange language with absurd repetitions. In his late work he confined himself back on productions with a more modest budget. La Maison Nucingen, published in 2009, processed surrealist sources; despite the homonymous title of the film has very little in common with Honoré de Balzac's novel. His last production, the movie Les Mystères de Lisbonne from which a small television series with 4 ½ hours total duration was based on a novel by Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco. The film was awarded the 2010 Prix Louis- Delluc.
Raúl Ruiz died on August 19, 2011 at the Hôpital Saint -Antoine in Paris at the age of 70 years at the consequences of infection. A year earlier, he had surgery for liver cancer undergo. Ruiz had been married since 1969 with the Chilean director Valeria Sarmiento, who cooperated in many of his films, among others, as a film editor. She took over from her late husband, the project Linhas de Wellington. The period drama about the lines of Torres Vedras, a defensive ring during the Napoleonic Wars in Portugal early 19th century, they set 2012 complete, including with John Malkovich, Soraia Chaves, Nuno Lopes and Mathieu Amalric in the main roles. Following the pattern of Ruiz ' last work, Les Mystères of Lisbonne, the film as Linhas de Torres Vedras came afterwards as a miniseries on television.