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Life Is a Dream (1987)

1h 40m

Running Time

September 15, 1987
Release Date

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Life Is a Dream (1987)

Name: Life Is a Dream
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Released: 1987-09-15

1h 40m

Running Time

September 15, 1987
Release Date

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Plot.

A baroque mix of revolutionary politics, pop culture and semiotics loosely based on the play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. A young prince learns that life is just a dream from which we wake when we die. And that dreams may be as real as life.

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Cast & Crew.

Sylvain Thirolle

Roch Leibovici

Bénédicte Sire

Jean-Bernard Guillard

Laurence Cortadellas

Actress

Jean-François Lapalus

Raúl Ruiz

Director / Writer

Jacques Bouquin

Director of Photography

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Writer

Alain Halle-Halle

Actor

Martine Bouquin

Editor

Alain Rimoux

Actor

Rudolfo Wedeles

Editor

Jorge Arriagada

Original Music Composer

Christian Olivares

ProductionDesigner

Details.

Release Date
September 15, 1987

Original Name
Mémoire des apparences

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 40m

Genres
Drama Fantasy

Last updated: 2025-02-11

Wiki.

Life is a Dream (French: Mémoire des apparences) is a 1987 French surrealist art film written and directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz. It is an oneiric, metafictional, "neo-Baroque" work about the Chilean dictatorship, exile, dream, cinema and mnemonics. It was inspired by Frances A. Yates' book The Art of Memory (1966) and features characters and scenes from Life Is a Dream (1635), a Spanish Golden Age play Ruiz had directed at the Avignon Festival in 1986, in addition to pastiches of B-movies and serials of the 1930s and 1940s.