Country: France
Year: 2004
Duration: 106
When,
in 1932, 10 years old Max is woken up by an airplane landing right by
his
parents' house, he does not suspect that is encounter with
Antoine, the pilot,
will not only open him to the beauties of the world, but will also
follow him
from second World War up to the jail of Pinochet's Chile.
"I
had wanted to make a film about Alain-Fournier's Le
Grand
Meaulnes for quite some time now. For me and may fellow
Argentineani
intellectual friends and leftist artists, the great figures of French
culture
are - besides Sartre - rather oscure poets and
novelists as Alain-Fournier.
Though less involved in the political debate, these provincials, who
are pretty
much forgotten in
Biography
film director
Raúl Ruiz
(Puerto Montt, Chile, 1941 - Paris, 2011) took up cinema in Argentina. After returning to Chile he was involved in avant-garde theater. In 1968, he debuted in film with Three Sad Tigers, Golden Leopard in Locarno. Forced into exile after Pinochet’s coup d’état, he found refuge in France. He made his name on the international scene with The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting. He has then directed over one hundred films, making him one of the most prolific directors of all time. In 1996 he made Three Lives and Only One Death, the second to the last film Marcello Mastroianni acted in; the next year he received a Silver Bear in Berlin for Genealogies of a Crime. He then continued making films until his death, always working alongside his wife, director and editor Valeria Sarmiento.
FILMOGRAFIA
Tres tristes tigres (1968), L’hypothèse du tableau volé (1979), La ville des pirates (La città dei pirati, 1983), L’éveillé du Pont de l’Alma (1985), Trois vies et une seule mort (Tre vite e una sola morte, 1996), Généalogie d’un crime (Genealogia di un crimine, 1997), Shattered Image (Autopsia di un sogno, 1998), Le temps retrouvé (Il tempo ritrovato, 1999), Les âmes fortes (2001), Cofralandes, rapsodia chilena (2002), Médée (2003), Días de campo (2004), Le domaine perdu (2005), Klimt (2006), La recta provincia (2007), Nucingen Haus (Miss Christine, 2008), L’estate breve (doc., 2010), Mistérios de Lisboa (2010).