King

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King

2017

1h 31m

Biography

Drama

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In 1860 a French lawyer tries to create an independent state for the indigenous peoples of Araucanía and Patagonia and be its king.

Jonathan Romney

Film Comment Magazine

Rey is a bold, freakish marvel, a bottle in the ocean of cinema, but worth cracking open-it contains not one message but a whole mass of them, scrawled in many different scripts and colors with artisanal passion and (sometimes) genuine inspiration.

Mar 8, 2018

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Cath Clarke

Guardian

Rey is a weird and sometimes wonderful film, featuring moments of piercing, memorable strangeness ...

Rated: 3/5

Jan 5, 2018

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Steve Erickson

Gay City News

The actors seem to be non-professionals portraying their ancestors. However, the rest of the film does serious damage to the idea of following a straightforward and believable narrative.

Mar 6, 2018

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Edward Porter

Sunday Times (UK)

It's rather laborious, but vivid enough to be worth a look if it's your kind of thing -- as it might be if you like Werner Herzog, Alejandro Jodorowsky or Guy Maddin.

Rated: 3/5

Jan 8, 2018

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Jorge (JJ) Negrete

Butaca Ancha

Referring to the great final sequence of Irma Vep (Assayas, 1996), the film becomes a formalistic rerun that completely demolishes the story of De Tounens in a beautiful piece of fine chaos... [Full review in Spanish]

Dec 28, 2017

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James B Evans

Electric Sheep

It's visionary, brave, memorable, but it also occasionally slips off of that aesthetic and intellectual tightrope of pretension/non-pretension, with little chance of this particular dialectic finding (or even seeking) resolution.

Aug 16, 2017

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Niles Atallah

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Rodrigo Lisboa

Orélie-Antoine de Tounens

Claudio Riveros

Juan Bautista Rosales

Niles Atallah

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Lucie Kalmar

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Synopsis

In 1860 a French lawyer tries to create an independent state for the indigenous peoples of Araucanía and Patagonia and be its king.

Director: Niles Atallah
Producer: Lucie Kalmar
Screenwriter: Niles Atallah
Production Co: Circe Films
Genre: Biography, Drama
Original Language: Spanish
Runtime: 1h 31m