Raoul Ruiz Collection (Rarities) - 3-DVD Box Set ( Combate de Amor em Sonho / A Cidade dos Piratas / O Território ) ( Love Torn in a Dream / City of Pirates / The Territory )

Raoul Ruiz Collection (Rarities) - 3-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Combate de Amor em Sonho / A Cidade dos Piratas / O Território
Alternate Title: Love Torn in a Dream / City of Pirates / The Territory
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Montreal World Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
French ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Portugal ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
463 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1981 - 2000 and produced in:
Chile ( Latin America, Mexico )
France ( France, Benelux )
Portugal ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Raoul Ruiz

Written By:
Raoul Ruiz
Gilbert Adair

Actors:
Melvil Poupaud ..... Paul / Mariani's son / Loup / The young father
Elsa Zylberstein ..... Lucrezia / Jessica / The sultan
Lambert Wilson ..... Sebatol / A pirate
Christian Vadim ..... David / A pirate
Diogo Dória ..... Mariani / Paul's father
Rogério Samora ..... Baniel / A pirate
Marie-France Pisier ..... The Stranger
Duarte de Almeida ..... Government Representative
Paula Pais ..... Arianne
José Meireles ..... Voleur / A pirate
André Gomes ..... Antique Dealer / A collector / 2nd. notable
Pedro Hestnes ..... Marc
Rui Luís ..... Master
Mathieu Demy ..... Paul / Loup
Laurent Malet ..... Paul / Father
Hugues Quester ..... Toby
Anne Alvaro ..... Isidore
Melvil Poupaud ..... Malo, l'enfant
André Engel ..... Le pêcheur
Duarte de Almeida ..... Le père
Clarisse Dole ..... La mère
André Gomes ..... Le carabinier
Isabelle Weingarten ..... Françoise
Rebecca Pauly ..... Barbara
Geoffrey Carey ..... Peter
Jeffrey Kime ..... Jim
Paul Getty Jr. ..... Ron - guide
Shila Turna ..... Linda - housewife
Artur Semedo ..... Wanderer #1
Duarte de Almeida ..... Wanderer #2
Camila Mora ..... Annie - young girl
José Nascimento ..... Joe - prawler
Ethan Stone ..... Ron - young boy
Rita Nascimento ..... Linda's daughter

Synopsis:

***WARNING***Audio: Films contain original language audio***Subtitles: Love Torn in a Dream - English, French, Portuguese; City of Pirates - English & Portuguese; The Territory - French & Portuguese***
Love Torn in a Dream (2000)
Raoul Ruiz's Love Torn in Dream is an inscrutably hypnotic, painterly, structurally organic, and logically impenetrable film that lyrically and visually conflates a series of historical periods, role-swapping character actors, and states of consciousness into a fanciful - albeit distended and maddeningly opaque - tale of love, fate, and destiny.

City of Pirates (1983)
Isidore is a servant in a small Portuguese town in the seaside arrives from who knows where a mysterious child, Malo, the young woman later discovered that he murdered his entire family. Together, they will kill the fiance of Isidore, then go to an island almost deserted. Isidore is taken prisoner by a multifaceted character, Toby, who is transformed by turns in all family members.

The Territory (1981)
A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods. Foolishly unprepared to deal with Mother Nature and their situation, they wander around lost for days and weeks, becoming more and more fatigued, hungry, and desperate.

Love Torn in a Dream (2000)
Raul Ruiz's Love Torn in a Dream is introduced with a fake newsreel, taking place in postwar France, in which the cast of the film meet with the producer, who explains the film's complex weave of nine narratives. A diagram in which each story is represented by a letter of the alphabet explicates the intertwining of the nine tales. As the producer explains each actor's role, the film begins. The stories, rooted in folklore, bump up against each other as the film leaps back in forth in time. They involve a jewel stolen from a painting, a mirror that 'steals' what it reflects, a seminary student who dresses as a priest to hear the nuns' confessions, brothers who combat each other in their search for a group of rings, a man whose everyday life is predicted by a website 24 hours in advance, a Catholic who finds out he's really Jewish, and a treasure map that leads to a pirate's chest. Each of the main cast members plays multiple roles. Ruiz veterans Melvil Poupaud and Elsa Zylberstein play the lead roles, while Lambert Wilson, Christian Vadim, Diogo Dória, José Meireles, and Rogério Samora play supporting roles. The film won the FIPRESCI Award at the 2000 Montreal World Film Festival, and was shown as part of the 'Film Comment Selects' series at New York's Lincoln Center in 2003.

City of Pirates (1983)
CITY OF PIRATES is a poetic masterpiece of exilic saudade. Ruiz made this in the immediate aftermath of a traumatic trip back to Chile, his first since the 1973 coup.

The Territory (1981)
Raul Ruiz's 1981 film, ''The Territory,'' takes a theme that has haunted modern literature from ''The Heart of Darkness'' to ''Lord of the Flies'' - the savagery bubbling beneath the veneer of civilization - and gives it a bizarre comic twist. In this variation, two American families on vacation in Europe metamorphose from sophisticated picture-perfect tourists into cannibals without much fuss during a camping trip in the South of France.

Love Torn in a Dream (2000)
Raoul Ruiz's Love Torn in Dream is an inscrutably hypnotic, painterly, structurally organic, and logically impenetrable film that lyrically and visually conflates a series of historical periods, role-swapping character actors, and states of consciousness into a fanciful - albeit distended and maddeningly opaque - tale of love, fate, and destiny.

City of Pirates (1983)
Isidore is a servant in a small Portuguese town in the seaside arrives from who knows where a mysterious child, Malo, the young woman later discovered that he murdered his entire family. Together, they will kill the fiance of Isidore, then go to an island almost deserted. Isidore is taken prisoner by a multifaceted character, Toby, who is transformed by turns in all family members. Freed, the girl can become the mistress of the castle pirates and marry Toby. But when she finishes them, she finds Malo and winds through all three residents of the island, the child murderer, the maid and Toby who is a ghost.

The Territory (1981)
A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods. Foolishly unprepared to deal with Mother Nature and their situation, they wander around lost for days and weeks, becoming more and more fatigued, hungry, and desperate. A brief encounter with a pair of epicureans on a bridge fails to garner them any of the gluttons' feast due to a language barrier. Eventually their party begins to die, and the survivors ration their meat among them, attaching a religious-type ritual to its dispensation.

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