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Three Crowns of the Sailor ( French: Les trois couronnes du matelot) is a 1983 French fabulist film with surrealist and oneiric flourishes written and directed by Chilean director Raúl Ruiz. [1] Plot. The film opens in black and white with the motiveless murder of a professor by his student in Warsaw in 1958.
Oct 5, 1984 · Three Crowns of the Sailor: Directed by Raúl Ruiz. With Jean-Bernard Guillard, Philippe Deplanche, Nadège Clair, Lisa Lyon. A drunken sailor recounts the surrealistic odyssey of his life story to a murderous student.
Nov 25, 2010 · Ruiz manipulates and creates elaborate pastiches of the classic “exotic” ports-of-call tropes…. Raoul Ruiz’s films are often dismissed as empty pretensions — The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (1979) is a notorious example.
A Chilean sailor persuades a Polish student who has just committed a brutal murder to listen to his life story and pay him three Danish krone in exchange for his place on The Funchalense. The sailor drunkenly recounts his macabre life on board and his adventures in exotic ports and brothels.
Mar 10, 2022 · Three Crowns of the Sailor – 1983 Ruiz. Raul Ruiz is a very worthy Orson Welles acolyte and Three Crowns of the Sailor is certainly among his greatest achievements. The Chilean auteur’s most important collaborator here is French cinematographer Sacha Vierny.
Sep 10, 2012 · The elements of the sailor's yarn are timeless and universal: family ties, journeying away from home, sex, violence, and death. Ruiz conjures them into a poetic parable on the theme of debts...
In this classically surreal fantasy, a sailor, known for telling tales, sees a student killing his teacher and decides to spin a few yarns for him. He tells the boy of his many adventures in exotic South American ports where he visited opium dens and stayed in cathouses.
