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This volume maps Ruiz's cinematic trajectory across more than five decades of prolific work
Adrian Martin, Goethe University and co-author with Raúl Ruiz of Magnificent Obsessions:The cinema of Raúl Ruiz is well known to all true cinephiles, but until now has gone under-analysed – effectively buried under the lamentably vague adjective 'Ruizian'. In the first single-authored English-language book on this great director, Michael Goddard expertly sifts through the many styles, contexts and personae of Ruiz: from Chilean radical to European artist, from no-budget experimentalist to wily entertainer, from theorist to storyteller. Using the lens of an 'impossible cartography', Goddard redraws all the maps we have used to grasp this most elusive and protean of international filmmakers – and concludes with a splendid, mind-expanding dialogue with Ruiz.
Richard Bégin, University of Montreal:A clear and penetrating analysis... Punctuated by brilliant film analysis, this volume is essential reading for anyone interested in the life and work of Raúl Ruiz.
Garin Dowd, University of West London:Michael Goddard's erudite new book is among the finest of contemporary film director studies to be published in recent years. It is a bold, authoritative and compelling survey of a career famously difficult to capture. Combining important and enriching context, engaging film analysis and a convincing central thesis, Goddard delivers his survey with a brio of which its subject would surely approved. The result is a nuanced and detailed portrait of the work of one of cinema's most fecund and engaging minds. The author succeeds in proposing on the one hand a scholarly periodisation and on the other some unifying theoretical concepts (principally cartography) which, against the odds perhaps, will leave the aficionado with an urge to explore further and deeper in the Ruizian labyrinth and the novice with the desire to begin somewhere, anywhere in the polymorphous corpus. This book serves as a worthy critical response to the incomparable range of output, the uncompromising vision, the ravenous intellectual energy and the sheer audacity of imagination of one of cinema's true, or (as Ruiz himself would probably prefer), fake originals.
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