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.

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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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Raúl Ruiz

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Valéria Sarmiento

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Luis Alarcón

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Patricia Rivadeneira

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Francisco Reyes

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Consuelo Castillo

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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: Chamila Rodríguez
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