La Fabbrica : Melvil Poupaud, retrospective

Love Torn in a Dream

Combat d'amour en songe

Raoul Ruiz

2000
France / Portugal
2h02
Fiction
Col.

The film comprises 9 separate stories which weave together. Most are set in the 17th or 18th century although one is contemporary. The characters change time and identity, embodying alternately pirates, student in theology, distraught lovers, exotic one sultana, a thief of treasures and the ready for anything nuns to save their convent…

Cast
Melvil Poupaud, Elsa Zylberstein, Lambert Wilson, Christian Vadim, Diogo Dória
Screenplay
Raoul Ruiz
Photography
Acácio de Almeida
Sound
Pierre-Yves Lavoué, Georges-Henri Mauchant, Gérard Rousseau
Music
Jorge Arriagada
Art direction
Isabel Branco
Editing
Valeria Sarmiento
Production
Paulo Branco

Films in the Retrospective

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  • Cinémas d'aujourd'hui