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The Wandering Soap Opera
Directed by
Raúl Ruiz
,
Valeria Sarmiento
2017
80m
Comedy
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6.5
100%
71%
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The film revolves around the concept of soap opera. Its structure is based on the assumption that Chilean reality does not exist, but rather is an ensemble of soap operas.
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Cast of The Wandering Soap Opera
Pamela Fernandez
Maria Luisa / Elena
Roberto Chignoli
Antonio
Mario Lorca
Humberto / Varela
Luis Alarcón
Belisario / Homero / Mateo
Marcela Arroyave
Secretary / Francisca
Maria Erica Ramos
Alma / Widow
Roberto Poblete
Ubaldo / Ontario / Nono Plaza
Luis Vera
Narrator / Mario / Garcia
Fernando Bordeu
Urbano / Peri
Carlos Matamala
Perico Mira / Millar / Olegario
Francisco Moraga
Morel / Juch / Chimpi
Francisco Reyes
Hermes / Franklin
Patricia Rivadeneira
Waitress / Asdrubal
Javier Maldonado
Vargas / Astolfo Tapia / Galan
Tahía Gómez
Concepción / Conchita
Mauricio Pesutic
Nibaldo / Gorki / Chato
Consuelo Castillo
Gladys / Pia
Maricarmen Arrigorriaga
Laura / Manuela / Leonor
Valeria Chignoli
MIMI / Pamela / Maria Asuncion
Liliana García
Maria / Macarena
Leticia Garrido
Olalla / Lucy / Ximena
Marcial Edwards
Uncle / Radio Host
Hernan Rodriguez Matte
Police Officer
Alberto Castillo
Cortez / Hercules / Tubiana
Raúl Ruiz
Director / Producer
Valeria Sarmiento
Director
Pía Rey
Writer
Raúl Ruiz
Writer
Leo Kocking
Producer
Andrés Racz
Producer
The Wandering Soap Opera Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
The film hits on all of the director's favorite themes - paranoia, narrative intricacy, fleeting but meaningful friendships - and the surrealist humor is often riotous.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
Deadpan and over-the-top, these scenes make for a view of turbulent reality that is episodic and nonsensical - and wholly Ruizian.
Newcity
Ray Pride
Film as séance: this is Valeria Sarmiento's 2017 completion of her late husband's... haphazard super-16mm film shoots in 1990 that did not become one of the hundred-plus finished works of his maddeningly prolific lifetime.
The CriterionCast
Joshua Brunsting
Finished by Sarmiento after Ruiz's passing, The Wandering Soap Opera is a thrilling work, an experiment in genre that evolves into something intensely surreal and political.
From the Front Row
Mattie Lucas
Rarely is cinema so fearlessly and effortlessly manipulated into uncharted territory; even in death Ruiz is still boldly pushing it, and us, into the future.
Battleship Pretension
Scott Nye
The Wandering Soap Opera draws more pure pleasure than sense can handle.
RogerEbert.com
Simon Abrams
The Wandering Soap Opera is only as powerful as your willing-ness to meet Ruiz and his collaborators on their brain-scrambling level.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
It was clearly made with slender financial means and abundant enthusiasm, and it functions simultaneously as a critique of the self-serious idiocy of authority and a celebration of the anarchic power of imagination.
Film Comment Magazine
Jonathan Romney
Ruiz wonderfully pastiches the stiffness, the talky longueurs, the abrupt discontinuity of the telenovela style...
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