The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting/The Suspended Vacation
by Raoul Ruiz
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Actor: Alfred Baillou, Carlos Asorey, Corinne Berjot, Jean Bessi?re, Jean RougeulDirector: Raoul Ruiz
Brand: FACETS VIDEO
Cinematographer: Sacha Vierny
Writer: Raoul Ruiz
Editor: Patrice Royer
Writer: Pierre Klossowski
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language), Unknown; English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 66 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-09-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Facets Video
Movie Reviews of The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting/The Suspended Vacation
Movie Review: One of the most genial and invective artistic proposals ever made in the history of cinema!
Summary: 5 Stars
During the decade of the seventies, two brilliant Chilean filmmakers made the world turns around the attention about them. Raoul Ruiz and Alexander Jodorowsky, this last one decided to risk by surrealistic universes while Ruiz remained as creator of hallucinating atmospheres.
I would not hesitate to state Raoul Ruiz meant for the cinema what Garcia Marquez in literature. His portentous imagination at the moment to present us his artistic proposals and convictions, with works that always challenge even the most exigent of the spectators, hovered by a nocturnal poetry and admirable visual metaphors.
This film is one the most representative, imaginative and dazzling ones of the seventies, who according Raoul Ruiz' words is. "a fiction about theory". All begins when a pompous art collector proposes a new history of western based on a mesmerizing gallery of "living images" created by a forgotten artist.
So, when our hard collector begins to drone away about aspects of his collection, the human figures smirk and fidget, introducing the spectator in another level of narrative proposal.
A brilliant exercise of imagination and supreme good taste that brings us close to another two related films. Basil Dearden' s "Dead of night", 1945 and Richard Rush's "The stunt man" , 1980.
Summary of The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting/The Suspended Vacation
Chilean born director Raul Ruiz offers an enigmatic musing on the nature of art interpretation in this unusual mystery centered on a stolen painting. A bumbling art collector attempts to reconstruct the content of a painting missing from a series of seven painted 100 years earlier by an eccentric artist. To help him in his task, a group of actors pose as the figures in the paintings to create a series of human tableaux. The collector makes far-fetched thematic connections between the tableaux as a way to figure out what the missing artwork might look like while alluding to the scandals, mysteries, and conspiracies surrounding the paintings. Beautifully photographed by legendary cinematographer Sacha Vierny (NIGHT AND FOG, BELLE DE JOUR, STARVISKY) and based on the provocative novel by Pierre Klossowski, HYPOTHESIS OF A STOLEN PAINTING gives new meaning to the phrase "intellectual thriller." As an added bonus, Ruiz's film THE SUSPENDED VOCATION-also based on a novel by the idiosyncratic Klossowski-is included on this DVD.Art House & International DVD Video
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