Raúl Ruiz

Raúl Ruiz (born 25 July 1941 in Puerto Montt, Chile) is a Chilean filmmaker and one of the most prolific filmmakers of the last 50 years.

He was trained as a painter. He spent some years at the Catholic University of Santa Fe, Argentina's cinema school. Back in Chile he directed his first feature films in the the late sixties and early seventies. He was something of an outsider among the politically oriented filmmakers of his generation, such as Miguel Littin and Helvio Soto, his work being far more ironic, surrealistic, and experimental. In 1973, after the coup d'etat led by the dictator Augusto Pinochet, he left Chile and settled in France. After several years producing and directing low-budget telefilms, he began working with larger budgets and "name" stars in 1996 with "Three Lives and Only One Death", Marcello Mastroianni's penultimate film. The following year he directed "Genealogies of a Crime", starring Catherine Deneuve.

Partial filmography

*"Palomita Blanca" (1973)
*"La Vocation suspendue" [The Suspended Vocation] (1977)
*"L'Hypothèse du tableau volé" [The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting] (1979)
*"Les Trois Couronnes du Matelot" (1982)
*"The Golden Boat" (1990)
*"Généalogies d'un crime" [Genealogies of a Crime] (1997)
*"Le Temps retrouvé" [Time Regained] (1999)
*"Comédie de l'innocence" [Comedy of Innocence] (2000)
*"Klimt" (2006)

External links

*imdb name|id=0749914|name=Raoul Ruiz
* [http://www.margencero.com/articulos/articulos2/raul_ruiz.htm Raúl Ruiz, l'enfant terrible de la vanguardia parisina]
* [http://www.rouge.com.au/2/index.html Complete annotated Ruiz filmography at Rouge online film magazine]
* [http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6797145 Raúl Ruiz photograph] by photographer/filmmaker Clay Walker