Free Screening: Raul Ruiz’s “The Wandering Soap Opera” + Surrealist Shorts

The San Francisco Public Library concludes its 100 Years of Surrealism film series with a screening of selected surrealist short films, followed by a screening of the feature film, The Wandering Soap Opera, by Franco-Chilean director Raul Ruiz.

The Wandering Soap Opera is a dreamily interconnected series of surreal vignettes that spoof telenovela conventions while reflecting Ruiz's feelings upon returning to his native Chile after more than 15 years away.

“In The Wandering Soap Opera, reality itself is reimagined as an interlocking set of interminable melodramas, crime stories and romances. The seven chapters — one for each day of the week, as they might unfold on television — are presented in sequence, but they also nest inside one another like matryoshka dolls. If the dolls had been designed by Max Ernst or Salvador Dali.” – A.O. Scott, The New York Times

NR, 78 mins., 2017. In Spanish with subtitles in English.

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