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The Tango of the Widower and its Distorting Mirror (Spanish: El tango del viudo y su espejo deformante) is a Chilean film directed by Raúl Ruiz in 1967 and completed by his widow Valeria Sarmiento for a February 2020 premiere at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival.
Sep 23, 2020 · The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror: Directed by Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento. With Rubén Sotoconil, Claudia Paz, Luis Alarcón, Shenda Román. The story of a man whose wife has committed suicide and appears to him as a ghost, following him everywhere and changing his personality.
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- Drama
- Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento
- 2020-09-23
Sep 21, 2020 · Raúl Ruiz's The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror is a Currents selection at the 58th New York Film Festival. This film will screen virtually from September 23 at 8pm...
- 3 min
- 633
- Film at Lincoln Center
The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror. A widowed and ailing literature professor is tormented by visions of his late wife, who killed herself. While the professor's social...
- Raúl Ruiz, Valéria Sarmiento
- Drama
Aug 22, 2020 · The Tango of the Widower and its Distorting Mirror (1967) was one of Ruiz’s earliest films and it does feel like a young man’s apprenticeship piece. Abandoned when Ruiz went into exile when General Pinochet came to power in 1973, Ruiz’s own widow Valerie Sarmiento (who was also his long-time editor) sought to reconstruct the remaining ...
Mar 5, 2020 · Finally rediscovered and reconstructed by his widow and now co-author Valeria Sarmiento, what would have been the unstoppable Chilean master’s first feature instead becomes his second posthumous work: a headlong Dadaist puzzle film about the haunting of a guilty widower.
An absurdist work of mourning where the illusion of grief falls into the trap of phantasmagorical hysteria. Tormented by the whisper of bitter nothings and plagued by a haunting of dethroned wigs, sweeping the floor and emerging from the chest as the guilt grows to be too powerful.
