Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody Explained
| Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody |
| Director: | Raúl Ruiz |
| Producer: | Christian Aspèe
Raúl Ruiz |
| Starring: | Bernard Pautrat |
| Music: | Jorge Arriagada |
| Cinematography: | Inti Briones |
| Editing: | Saskia Berthod
Jean-Christophe Hym
Raúl Ruiz |
| Distributor: | Margo Films |
| Runtime: | 312 minutes |
| Country: | Chile, France |
| Language: | Spanish, French |
Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody (es|'''Cofralandes, rapsodia chilena''') is an experimental four-part 2002 Franco-Chilean digital video series written and directed by Raúl Ruiz for the Chilean Ministry of Education.[1] The first part won the Glauber Rocha Award for the Best Film from Latin America and a FIPRESCI Award at the Montreal World Film Festival in 2002 "for the director's personal exploration into his homeland, using DV in a rigorous yet playful manner".[2]
Cast
- Bernard Pautrat as Bernard
- Raúl Ruiz as narrator
- Malcolm Coad as English journalist
- Rainer Krause as German artist
- Ignacio Agüero as Rafael
- Mario Montilles as old Rafael
- Marcial Edwards as a guide in the Museum of Nothing
- Javier Maldonado as a guide in the Museum of the Sandwich
- Francisco Reyes as patriotic priest
- Amparo Noguera as patriotic priest's realist sister
- Néstor Cantillana as country bumpkin
- Isabel Parra as Death
- Ángel Parra as Our Lord Jesus Christ
- Miriam Heard as a consular officer
- Luis Villaman as Don Marat the schoolteacher
- José Luis Barba as Cuban schoolteacher
Further reading
- Depetris Chauvin, Irene (2015); "Texturas del pasado, performances del presente. Historia y giro afectivo en la rapsodia chilena de Raúl Ruiz" in Cecilia Macón and Mariela Solana (eds.) Pretérito indefinido: Afectos y emociones en las aproximaciones al pasado, Título, pp. 113–135.
- Marinescu, Andreea (2017); "Raúl Ruiz's Surrealist Documentary of Return: Le retour d'un amateur de bibliothèques (1983) and Colfralandes (2002)" in Ignacio López-Vicuña and Andreea Marinescu (eds.) Raúl Ruiz's Cinema of Inquiry, Wayne State University Press, pp. 177–196.
- Rodríguez-Remedi, Alejandra (2009); "Cofralandes: A Formative Space for Chilean Identity" in Miriam Haddu and Joanna Page (eds.) Visual Synergies in Fiction and Documentary Film from Latin America, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 87–103.
- Thies, Sebastian (2011); "Nomadic Narration and Deterritorialized Nationscape in Cofralandes: Rapsodia chilena (2004) by Raúl Ruiz" in Josef Raab, Sebastian Thies and Daniela Noll-Opitz (eds.) Screening the Americas: Narration of Nation in Documentary, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, pp. 273–296.
Notes and References
- Web site: Le Cinéma de Raoul Ruiz: Cofralandes . 2019-06-05. rouge.com.au.
- Web site: Festival awards 2002 . 2012-05-10 . fipresci.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120516004618/http://www.fipresci.org/awards/awards/awards_2002.htm . 2012-05-16 .
