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Three Crowns of the Sailor

Original title: Les trois couronnes du matelot
  • 19831983
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 57m
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7.1/10
1.1K
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Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983)
AdventureDramaFantasy
A drunken sailor recounts the surrealistic odyssey of his life story to a murderous student.A drunken sailor recounts the surrealistic odyssey of his life story to a murderous student.A drunken sailor recounts the surrealistic odyssey of his life story to a murderous student.
IMDb RATING
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1.1K
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    • Raúl Ruiz
    • Emilio Del Solar(collaborator on screenplay and dialogue)
    • François Ede(collaborator on screenplay and dialogue)
    • Raúl Ruiz
  • Stars
    • Jean-Bernard Guillard
    • Philippe Deplanche
    • Nadège Clair
    • Raúl Ruiz
    • Emilio Del Solar(collaborator on screenplay and dialogue)
    • François Ede(collaborator on screenplay and dialogue)
    • Raúl Ruiz
  • Stars
    • Jean-Bernard Guillard
    • Philippe Deplanche
    • Nadège Clair
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    • 6User reviews
    • 14Critic reviews
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    José de Carvalho in Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983)
    Nadège Clair and Jean-Bernard Guillard in Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983)
    Jean Badin, Jean-Bernard Guillard, and Lisa Lyon in Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983)
    Jean-Bernard Guillard in Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983)
    Nadège Clair in Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983)
    Jean-Bernard Guillard and Lisa Lyon in Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983)
    Raúl Ruiz in Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983)
    Philippe Deplanche and Raúl Ruiz in Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983)
    Jean-Bernard Guillard in Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983)
    Lisa Lyon in Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983)
    Jean-Bernard Guillard and Raúl Ruiz in Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983)
    Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983)

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    Jean-Bernard Guillard
    • The sailor…
    Philippe Deplanche
    • Tadeusz Krasinski the student
    Nadège Clair
    • María the prostitute
    Lisa Lyon
    • Mathilde the dancer
    Jean Badin
    • The 1st officer
    Paula Brunet-Sancho
    • Moroccan streetwalker
    • (as Pauline Brunet)
    José de Carvalho
    • The old sailor
    Claude Dereppe
    • The ship's captain
    Diogo Dória
    Diogo Dória
    • The sailor's sister's fiancé
    Mostefa Djadjam
    • Ahmed
    • (as Mostepha Djadjam)
    Huguette Faget
    Huguette Faget
    • Our Lady - the 1st officer's mother
    André Gomes
    • Carlos A. Cores the travelling salesman
    Wladimir Ivanovsky
    • The Impersonator
    • (as Vladimir Ivanovsky)
    Adelaide João
    Adelaide João
    • The sailor's mother
    • (as Adélaïde Joao)
    Théo Légitimus
    • The sailor's 'father'
    Claudio Martinez
    • Ali
    Tanh N'Guyen
    • Orphan girl
    Franck Oger
    • The Blindman
      • Raúl Ruiz
      • Emilio Del Solar(collaborator on screenplay and dialogue)
      • François Ede(collaborator on screenplay and dialogue)
      • Raúl Ruiz
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    • Trivia
      Ruiz's screenplay was partially inspired by the Chilean myth of the Caleuche ghost ship.
    • Quotes

      L'étudiant: On the night of July 25, 1958 I killed Ladislaw Zukarevitch, antique dealer, my mentor, my master in the art of polishing diamonds, my tutor at Warsaw Theological School. I got nothing out of this crime except the ring he offered me many times; several hundred marks; a collection of old coins, of no value; and a long letter where he advised me to leave the country.

    • Connections
      Edited into Catalogue of Ships (2008)
    • Soundtracks
      Uno
      Composed by Enrique Santos Discépolo and Mariano Mores

      Sung by Reynaldo Anselmi

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    9/10
    Wellesian noir meets Ruizian surrealism
    "Les Trois couronnes du matelot"/Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983) is the third of the three early Raoul Ruiz films on an indispensable Blaq Out set along with "L'Hypothèse du tableau volé" and "La Vocation suspendue" (see my remarks on the other two). This I liked almost as much as "Hypothesis" and wish I had had the time to watch it again; it gets perhaps a wee bit long, but on the whole it is a wonderfully delirious pastiche of various themes and visual tropes from Orson Welles (most specifically "Lady from Shanghai", "Mr. Arkadin" and towards the end, "The Trial"), film noir generally, Sternberg's "Macao" and other 40s-50s Hollywood-in-the-exotic-ports-of-call type pictures -- all filtered through Ruiz's wonderfully playful postmodern/magical realist sense of story. Like the two earlier features it is incredibly dense, self-serious on its face but self-mocking and amused when one delves deeper. Most of the film consists of a sailor -- in many respects as naive and reckless as Welles' Michael O'Hara -- telling his life story -- or stories, of adventures at sea, femmes fatale, murders, and money, always lots and lots of money -- to a young man in a spectacular restaurant/ballroom in Antwerp (I think). It's really mind-boggling, but in a very different way from the two earlier films in the set, and in many ways it's a good film to set you up for Manoel dans l'île des merveilles. The photography, in particular the black and white segments (those set in "present-day", in Antwerp) is quite striking and is the work of the great French cinematography Sacha Vierny, who had worked with Buñuel and Resnais among others, and went on to work with Greenaway. After seeing this early series of films, one can see that that -- like so many of the odd occurrences in so many early Ruiz films -- was no coincidence. DVD rental
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      • October 5, 1984 (United States)
      • France
      • English
      • Arabic
      • Cantonese
      • Spanish
      • Mandarin
      • French
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    • Filming locations
      • Madeira, Portugal
    • Production companies
      • Films A2
      • Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA)
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    • 1 hour 57 minutes
      • Mono

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