Dialogues of Exiles
(1975)
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Dialogues of Exiles
(1975)
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Françoise Arnoul |
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Huguette Faget |
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Sergio Hernández | ... |
Fabián Luna (the kidnapped singer)
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Carla Cristi |
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Carlos Solanos |
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Jorge Barra |
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Irene Domínguez |
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Chacho Urteaga |
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Pablo de la Barra |
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Percy Matas |
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Etienne Bolo |
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Edgardo Cozarinsky | ... |
Edgardo
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Humberto Miranda | ... |
Pancho
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Luis Poirot | ... |
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Lucho
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Chilean exiles in Paris discuss the problems facing them. They kidnap and attempt to re-educate a touring singer from their fatherland.
Magisterial, droll low-budget work is the first film Ruiz made in France after fleeing the Pinochet dictatorship - and also the first feature film of the Chilean diaspora. Many in the Chilean exile community rejected the film for its allegedly light handling of heavy subject matter (reactionary race/gender/class attitudes, party-political fundamentalism, torpor and corruption among the exiles). Wonderful performances from non-actor exiles abound (particularly impressive as most takes last several minutes) but the standout is Sergio Hernández (NIGHT ACROSS THE STREET) as the singer kidnapped by the exiles. Ruiz cited Mizoguchi as an inspiration for his play with spatial uncertainty in Parisian apartments, though anyone familiar with Godard's 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER... (1967) will notice another master's Brechtian influence. Stylistically the film's rough edges recall Ruiz's NADIE DIJO NADA (1971) and PALOMITA BLANCA (1973) more than the elegant work he went on to craft in France and Portugal over the following decade.