Raúl Ruiz

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Raúl Ruiz (born July 25, 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 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 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.

[edit] 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)

[edit] External links

• Raoul Ruiz at the Internet Movie Database
• Raúl Ruiz, l'enfant terrible de la vanguardia parisina
• Complete annotated Ruiz filmography at Rouge online film magazine
• Raúl Ruiz photograph by photographer/filmmaker Clay Walker