Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983)
(Les trois couronnes du matelot)
Country: FR
Technical: bw/col 117m
Director: Raúl Ruiz
Cast: Jean-Bernard Guillard, Philippe Deplanche, Nadège Clair, Lisa Lyon
Synopsis:
A student who has killed gratuitously meets a sailor in a landlocked city who recounts his life and offers him passage on board his ship.
Review:
Reminiscent of Last Year in Marienbad in its preoccupation with story structures - but less Robbe-Grillet's Swiss watch and more Buñuel's oneiric surrealism - Ruiz's 'most accessible' work is part a hymn of regret for his native Chile, part a game of allusions: Meursault, the Flying Dutchman, Coleridge, Orson Welles all spring to mind at different times. However, even Resnais had the sense to dispense with the soporific narration after the first five minutes, and in spite of Sacha Vierny's resourceful mix of colour variation and fish-eye or dioptic lenses (split focus effects), this does not have the visual interest to compensate for the absence of narrative grip.
(Les trois couronnes du matelot)
Country: FR
Technical: bw/col 117m
Director: Raúl Ruiz
Cast: Jean-Bernard Guillard, Philippe Deplanche, Nadège Clair, Lisa Lyon
Synopsis:
A student who has killed gratuitously meets a sailor in a landlocked city who recounts his life and offers him passage on board his ship.
Review:
Reminiscent of Last Year in Marienbad in its preoccupation with story structures - but less Robbe-Grillet's Swiss watch and more Buñuel's oneiric surrealism - Ruiz's 'most accessible' work is part a hymn of regret for his native Chile, part a game of allusions: Meursault, the Flying Dutchman, Coleridge, Orson Welles all spring to mind at different times. However, even Resnais had the sense to dispense with the soporific narration after the first five minutes, and in spite of Sacha Vierny's resourceful mix of colour variation and fish-eye or dioptic lenses (split focus effects), this does not have the visual interest to compensate for the absence of narrative grip.
(Les trois couronnes du matelot)
Country: FR
Technical: bw/col 117m
Director: Raúl Ruiz
Cast: Jean-Bernard Guillard, Philippe Deplanche, Nadège Clair, Lisa Lyon
Synopsis:
A student who has killed gratuitously meets a sailor in a landlocked city who recounts his life and offers him passage on board his ship.
Review:
Reminiscent of Last Year in Marienbad in its preoccupation with story structures - but less Robbe-Grillet's Swiss watch and more Buñuel's oneiric surrealism - Ruiz's 'most accessible' work is part a hymn of regret for his native Chile, part a game of allusions: Meursault, the Flying Dutchman, Coleridge, Orson Welles all spring to mind at different times. However, even Resnais had the sense to dispense with the soporific narration after the first five minutes, and in spite of Sacha Vierny's resourceful mix of colour variation and fish-eye or dioptic lenses (split focus effects), this does not have the visual interest to compensate for the absence of narrative grip.