The Blind Owl (1987)
1h 30m
Running Time
December 31, 1987Release Date
Plot.
H., 35, an Arabian immigrant, works as projectionist in an old cinema. One day, drawn by the music, he looks through the window of the booth and is fascinated: the dancer he sees on the screen seems to be looking straight into his eyes. He falls in love with her, but the vision last only a moment. Shortly afterwards, an elderly man storms into the projection booth and claims he is his uncle.
H. wants to prepare a meal for him and reaches for the oil bottle: he sees the same dancer on the label…. H begins to find echoes of his own life in the images he projects. Everything changes when fiction and reality merge.
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Cast & Crew.
Jean-François Lapalus
Actor
Jessica Forde
Actress
Jean-Bernard Guillard
Kasim
Jean-Marie Boëglin
Actor
Raúl Ruiz
Director
Sadegh Hedayat
Writer
Benoît Peeters
Writer
Tirso de Molina
Writer
Details.
Release DateDecember 31, 1987
Original NameLa Chouette aveugle
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 30m
Genres
Wiki.
The Blind Owl (French: La chouette aveugle) is a 1987 surrealist art film directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz. It is an oneiric, metafictional work with some scenes and characters loosely based on the 1937 book The Blind Owl by the Persian writer Sadegh Hedayat.