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Raoul Ruiz is not really well known here in listal but he is actually a quite interesting director. He actually died just last year but he had a productive career, directing more than 100 movies. Even though he was Chilean, most of those movies were made in France as he fled his homecountry from Pinochet's dictatoship. Anyway, I heard a lot about the guy so I was really intrigued by his work and when I finally got the opportunity to get acquainted, I was rather thrilled. This time around, he worked with a pretty good cast (Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli , Melvil Poupaud, Bernadette Lafont, Mathieu Amalric) and, I, above all, enjoyed Catherine Deneuve who is still one of the best actress at work nowadays. The story was pretty weird and sometimes pretty hard to follow but it was obviously not the point here. Indeed, the whole thing was more about the symbolims, some kind of meta-narration, if you see what I mean (I'm not even sure I understand what I'm saying...). Anyway, evn though I don't think I got the whole thing, I still enjoyed it because a challenging complicated smart movie is always better than a dumbed down blockbuster. To conclude, I thought it was pretty good and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.