2012 · surreal · memory · metaphysical
Night Across the Street
Directed by Raúl Ruiz1h 47m2012
A drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories.
Our read: Night Across the Street (2012) reads as a neutral, measured, surreal surreal · memory · metaphysical entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, measured, measured surreal / memory, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- measured
- surreal
- signature
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“You want Raúl Ruiz's surreal final film meditating on memory, time, imagination, and approaching death.”
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