Life Is a Dream (1987)
1h 40m
Running Time
September 15, 1987Release Date
Life Is a Dream (1987)
1h 40m
Running Time
September 15, 1987Release Date
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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Details.
Release DateSeptember 15, 1987
Original NameMémoire des apparences
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 40m
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.