The Wandering Soap Opera

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The Wandering Soap Opera

Released May 17, 2019

1h 20m

Comedy

Drama

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Chilean reality as seen from the point of view of soap operas, in which four factions are on the verge of war.

Ben Sachs

Chicago Reader

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.

Apr 3, 2020

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

Deadpan and over-the-top, these scenes make for a view of turbulent reality that is episodic and nonsensical - and wholly Ruizian.

Jun 7, 2019

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Simon Abrams

RogerEbert.com

The Wandering Soap Opera is only as powerful as your willing-ness to meet Ruiz and his collaborators on their brain-scrambling level.

Rated: 4/4

May 17, 2019

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Ray Pride

Newcity

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.

Rated: 8/10

Jun 1, 2019

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Joshua Brunsting

The CriterionCast

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.

May 25, 2019

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Mattie Lucas

From the Front Row

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.

Rated: 3.5/4

May 18, 2019

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Valéria Sarmiento

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Synopsis

Chilean reality as seen from the point of view of soap operas, in which four factions are on the verge of war.

Director: Raúl Ruiz, Valéria Sarmiento
Producer: Leo Kocking, Andrés Racz, Raúl Ruiz
Screenwriter: Pía Rey, Raúl Ruiz
Distributor: Cinema Guild
Production Co: Poetastros
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: Spanish
Release Date (Theaters): May 17, 2019, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA): $2.9K
Runtime: 1h 20m