“On the verge of forced retirement, an elderly office worker (Sergio Hernández) begins reliving memories from his past, both real and imagined: a trip to the movies as a young boy with Beethoven, listening to tall tales from Long John Silver, a brief stay in a haunted hotel, conversations with a writer’s fictional doppelgänger. Stories are hidden within stories and the thin line between imagination and reality steadily erodes, opening up a marvelous new world of personal remembrance and melodrama. In his final masterwork, loosely adapted from the fantastical short stories of Chilean writer Hernán del Solar, Ruiz has crafted a playfully elegiac film that addresses his favorite subjects: fiction, history, and life itself.” —New York Film Festival
NIGHT ACROSS THE STREET / LA NOCHE DE ENFRENTE
A film by Raúl Ruiz
(Chile/France, 2012, 110 min. In Spanish and French with English subtitles)
Now streaming on Amazon Prime and iTunes
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