Snakes and Ladders (1980)

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/ 10
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31m
Running Time

September 17, 1980
Release Date

Snakes and Ladders (1980)

6
/ 10
1 User Ratings
31m
Running Time

September 17, 1980
Release Date

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Network & Production Companies
France 2 (FR2)
Centre Georges Pompidou

Plot.

A man awakens to find himself immersed in a real-life scenario of a board game with an ever expanding cartography.

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Release Date
September 17, 1980

Original Name
Zig~Zag - le jeu de l'oie (Une fiction didactique à propos de la cartographie)

Status
Released

Running Time
31m

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This Movie Is About.

surreal

Wiki.

Zig-Zag, Snakes and Ladders (a didactic fiction about cartography), and also known in French as Le jeu de l'oie (Une fiction didactique à propos de la cartographie), is a French surrealist short film made in 1980. It was written and directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz and produced by France 2 to promote a new map exhibition at the Pompidou Centre in Paris and was shot in Europe for French television. The film was eventually distributed throughout France and in Spain. It stars Pascal Bonitzer and Jean-Loup Rivière.

In the film, Pascal Bonitzer plays a man named "H" who has just awoken in his car in the countryside with no idea of what has happened. Unable to start the car, he decides to look for help and finds two men playing the board game "Snakes and Ladders" and eventually becomes immersed in the game, which becomes (sur)real. He follows the rules and is guided throughout it by a partner who appears from nowhere, played by Jean-Loup Rivière. As he attempts to win the game, H realizes that the scale of the cartography of the board game is ever expanding. Whilst seeking to escape from his didactic nightmare of a real life dream, he travels across Paris, through France and Europe, around the Earth, and eventually to the cosmos.

The short film was premiered on September 17, 1980 on French television and was distributed by Gemini Video Editions. Later the film was distributed in Spain for viewers on February 7, 1997. Originally shown in French, it was later subtitled in Spanish, English, and many other languages.

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