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      Love Torn in Dream

      2000 1 hr. 30 min. Drama Fantasy List
      Reviews 100% Fewer than 50 Ratings Audience Score A young man questions himself about a web of social pressures that pushes men to get rich at any cost. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member I am still not sure what to make of this perplexing, aggressively baffling film. Even by the standards of Ruiz's often aggressively baffling career, this is monumentally dense and hermetic. Formally, it is concerned with how to take nine independent narrative premises in order to combine and overlap them into as many imaginative forms or related "stories" possible-- stories where the spatial and temporal logic and narrative continuity don't really appeal. And so, in typical Ruiz fashion, we get mirror worlds, overlapping space and times, and nonsensical debates. This almost has more in common with avant-garde jazz musicians like Anthony Braxton who explore the tension between pre-ordained compositional structures in order to find moments for chance and improvisations. In other words, in terms of the film, rule-based structures create illogical, irrational, and arbitrarily seeming spatial and temporal narrative outcomes. I am amazed Ruiz even got this made, not that it's likely to land on dvd anytime soon, but still. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Jorge (JJ) Negrete Butaca Ancha The lack of control and narrative anarchy of Combat d' amour en songe is such that it seems to come to life by itself. [Full review in Spanish] Oct 3, 2017 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews It veers from being silly to being profound. Rated: B- Mar 10, 2013 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis A young man questions himself about a web of social pressures that pushes men to get rich at any cost.
      Director
      Raúl Ruiz
      Production Co
      Artisan Entertainment
      Genre
      Drama, Fantasy
      Original Language
      French (Canada)