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Life Is a Dream (1986 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Life is a Dream' is a 1987 French art film written and directed by Chilean filmmaker Ral 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.
Cast
* Sylvain Thirolle as Ignacio Vega
* Roch Leibovici
* Bndicte Sire as Astrea
* Laurence Cortadellas
* Jean-Bernard Guillard as Prince Segismundo
* Jean-Pierre Agazar
* Alain Halle-Halle
* Jean-Franois Lapalus
* Alain Rimoux
Further reading
* Cisneros, James (2006); "The figure of memory in Chilean cinema: Patricio Guzmn and Ral Ruiz" in 'Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies' 15, no. 1, pp. 5975.
* Goddard, Michael (2013); 'The Cinema of Ral Ruiz: Impossible Cartographies.' Wallflower Press, pp. 8993.
* Kaup, Monika (2012); "Antidictatorship Neobaroque Cinema: Ral Ruiz's 'Mmoire des apparences' and Mara 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. 183242.
* Marinescu, Andreea (2014); "The Dream of Memory in Ral Ruizs 'Memories of Appearances': 'Life Is a Dream'" in 'Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media', Vol. 55, No. 1 (Spring), pp. 7-31.
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