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Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody (2002)

August. 30,2002
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7.5
| Drama Comedy Documentary
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An experimental four-part 2002 Franco-Chilean digital video series written and directed by Raúl Ruiz. The first part won a FIPRESCI Award at the Montreal World Film Festival in 2002 "for the director's personal exploration into his homeland, using DV in a rigorous yet playful manner".

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SteinMo
2002/08/30

What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

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Fairaher
2002/08/31

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

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Orla Zuniga
2002/09/01

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

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Raymond Sierra
2002/09/02

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

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ExpFil
2002/09/03

This is the first part of Ruiz's wonderful shot-on-DV film-essay COFRALANDES, CHILEAN RHAPSODY (aka IMPRESSIONS OF CHILE). As with many of his "no-budget" efforts, it inhabits an odd twilit zone of its own where sudden sojourns into the worlds of fiction and documentary begin and end without warning. There is a nominal plot setup involving a Frenchman, a German, an Englishman and a Chilean but, interspersed with Ruiz's trademark absurdist sketches (only some of which he had to devise), we also have talking heads reflecting on Chile's national character, language, literature, landscape and all manner of minutiae of yesteryear. The more you know about Chilean culture, however, the less surreal all this seems – and the more playful, droll and melancholic it becomes. I would recommend Cofralandes ("the land of plenty") to anyone interested in exploring Chilean national identity or the potential of digital video. The director's fans should also see it – for this is definitely Ruiz at his most radical. A possible influence on Godard's FILM SOCIALISME.

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