Three Crowns of the Sailor

Director: Raúl Ruiz

1983 / 117min / DCP

A callow student, scared stiff of the consequences of the murder he has just committed, allows himself to be dragged to a dance hall by a squiffed sailor who insists on making the shaken youth a captive audience to the recounting of his life story, a surreal trawl through ports of call and seedy brothels across Latin America—in fact locations in­ Portugal and Paris, suffused with an intoxicating unreality by Ruiz and Hiroshima, Mon Amour DP Sacha Vierny, no stranger to cinematic dreamscapes.

“Paradoxes build on paradoxes and logic on illogic… And yet the game has a serious end, building toward a world stripped of substance, in which everything signifies but nothing means.”—Dave Kehr, The Chicago Reader

Part of Dream with Your Eyes Open