Directed by Raúl Ruiz
A master fabulist with a great talent for the oneiric, the comic, and the literary alike—a rare and potent combination—Raul Ruíz distinguished himself from the jump, snagging Locarno Film Festival’s Golden Leopard in 1969 with his debut feature, "Three Sad Tigers". From there, he would build a large and eclectic body of work, ever more dense and daring—working mostly outside of his native Chile, which he fled upon Pinochet’s rise to power in 1973. Metrograph At Home’s selection brings together two of Ruiz’s most dazzling feats of adaptation, "Time Regained" (1999) and "Mysteries of Lisbon" (2010)—wrought from novels by Proust and Camilo Castelo Branco, respectively—with his final completed feature, the supernatural, multi-dimensional swansong that is "Night Across the Street" (2012).
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Time Regained
Directed by Raúl Ruiz | 162 mins | 1999
“The best way to adapt something for film is to dream it,” quipped Raúl Ruiz. This apparently facetious remark nevertheless captures something of the feeling of the Chilean master’s lauded adaptation of Proust’s seven-volume opus, "In Search of Lost Time" (... -
Mysteries of Lisbon
Directed by Raúl Ruiz | 267 mins | 2010
It is a rare thing for one of a filmmaker’s final works to rank among their greatest, and their most classically sumptuous—but such is the case with Ruiz’s sweeping, four-and-a-half-hour-long adaptation of Portuguese author Camilo Castelo Branco’s novel of ... -
Night Across the Street
Directed by Raúl Ruiz | 113 mins | 2012
The last completed film by Chilean master Ruiz is a melancholic memoir film, a playful puzzle box of a movie in which an office worker approaching retirement reflects back on his life—including events that may not necessarily have happened. A sublime swan s...
