A correspondence between a Moor and a Christian in 1666 at the time of false prophets and multiple conversions. Somewhere between official speeches and secret dealings, an allegory of contemporary colonialism...
Raoul Ruiz (1941–2011) was an experimental Chilean
filmmaker, writer, teacher and theater director. A key figure of the New Latin American Cinema, politically engaged, he was forced to exile after Pinochet's coup d'etat in 1973. His work features over 100 films such as
Tres tristes tigres (1968),
Palomita blanca (1973),
Dark at Noon (1992) starring John Hurt,
Three Lives and Only One Death (1996) starring Marcello Mastroianni,
Genealogies of a Crime (1997) starring Catherine Deneuve,
Time Regained (1999) and
Klimt (2006) starring John Malkovich, and
Mysteries of Lisbon (2010).
