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103 min | USA | 35 mm
main programme
credits
PROD: Barbet Schroeder, Susan Hoffman, Lloyd A. Silverman, Seven Arts Pictures
SALES: Behaviour Worldwide
SCENARIO: Duane Poole
CAMERA: Robby M�ller
EDITOR: Michael Duthie
ARTDIR: Robert De Vico
MUSIC: Jorge Arriagida
CAST: William Baldwin, Anne Parillaud, Lisanne Falk, Graham Greene, Bulle Ogier
screenings
28 thursday 13:15 Path� 3
31 sunday 19:30 Venster 3
04 thursday 17:00 Path� 1
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Who is the real Jessie Markham? Is she a rich and vulnerable heiress on a tropical island, who suspects her new husband Brian (William Baldwin) of wanting to murder her? Or is she a stunningly-attractive cold-blooded assassin who preys on men? Both variations would appear to exist only in the dreams of the other Jessie. And neither of them knows which is real and which is a nocturnal hallucination. In the end, both of Jessie's lives start crossing each others paths. Both women move inevitably towards their final destination: one as the helpless target of a treacherous plot, the other as a beast of prey with a deadly plan. Then it becomes clear who is dreamer and who is dream... Ra�l Ruiz' first American film is a stylish thriller, in which the doppelganger motif is reminiscent of films like Vertigo and La double vie de V�ronique. Against the backdrop of elegant apartments, chic restaurants and tropical landscape, Ruiz plays, as he often does, with cinematographic conventions, psychology and a large dose of 'suspension of disbelief'. The lead is played by Anne Parillaud (e.g. La femme Nikita), the production is in the hands of director/producer Barbet Schroeder, the camera-work is by the Dutchman Robby M�ller. 'A grand film in the great tradition of sophisticated intrigue' (Kay Armatage, Toronto festival).
Ra�l Ruiz
Ra�l Ruiz (1941, Puerto Mott, Chile) studied theology and law and wrote more than a hundred plays. He studied at the film academy of Santa F� in Argentina, but stopped after a year. After the coup in Chile (1973) he fled to Europe and since then the highly-productive Ruiz (with more than eighty films to his name) has mainly filmed in France.
films
La maleta (1960), Le retour (1964), El tango del viudo (1967), Los tres tristes tigres (1968), Militarismo y tortura (1969), La catanaria (1969), Que hacer? (1970), La colonia penal (1970), Ahora te vamos a llamar Hermano (1971), Nadie dijo nada (1971),L'expropriacion (1971), Los minuteros (1972), Poesia popular, la teoria y la practica (1972), Nueva cancion (Chilena) (1972), El realismo socialista (1973), Palomita brava (1973), Palomita bianca (1973), Abastecimiento (1973), Dialogo de exilados (1974), El cuerpo repartido y el mundo al reves (1975), Sotelo (1976), La vocation suspendue (1977), L'hypoth�se du tableau vol� (1978), Les divisions de la nature (1978), Des grands �v�nements et des gens ordinaires: les elections (1979), Petit manuel d'histoire de France (1979), Images de d�bat (1979), Jeux (1979), Le jeu de l'oie (1979), La ville nouvelle (1980), L'or gris (1980), Mus�e Dali (1980), Pages d'un catalogue (1980), Fahlstrom (1980), Teletests (1980), Le borgne (1980), Le territoire (1981), Le toit de la baleine / Het dak van de walvis (1981), Images de sable (1981), Les trois couronnes du matelot (1982), Ombres chinoises (1982), Le petit th�atre (1982), Querelle des jardins (1982), Lettre d'un cin�aste ou le retour d'un amateur de biblioth�ques (1983), B�r�nice (1983), La ville de Paris (1983), La pr�sence r�elle (1983), Point de fuite (1984), L'�veille du pont de l'Alma (1984), Richard III (1984), R�gime sans pain (1984), Dans un miroir (1984), Voyage autour d'une main (1984), Manoel dans l'ile des merveilles (1985), Les destins de Manoel (1985), L'ile au tr�sor (1985), Mammame (1985), M�moire des apparances (1986), La chouette aveugle (1987), Le professeur Taranne (1987), Tous les nuages sont des horloges (1988), L'autel de l'amiti� (1988), Allegoria (1988), Hub (1989), Derri�re le mur / Behind the wall (1989), Il pozzo dei pazzi (1989), Le livre de Christophe Colombe (1990), The Golden Boat (1990), La novela errante (1990), Lexot (1991), 6 Canti dell'inferno di Dante (1991), Basta la palabra (1991), L'oeuil qui ment (1991), L'�le au tr�sor (1991), Visione e meraviglia della religione Christiana (1992), Les solidades (1992), Miroirs de Tun�sie (1993), Capitolo 66 (1993), Fado majeur et mineur (1994), La notte oscura dell'inquisitore - 5' promenade (1994), Il viaggio secreto / The Secret Journey (1994), Trois vies et une seule mort (1996), G�n�alogies d'un crime (1997), Shattered Images (1998)
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