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• NIGHT ACROSS THE STREET

NIGHT ACROSS THE STREET

Synopsis

On the verge of a forced retirement, Don Celso, an elderly office worker begins to relive both real and imagined memories from his life - a trip to the movies as a young boy with Beethoven, listening to tall tales from Long John Silver, a brief stay in a haunted hotel. Stories hide within stories and the thin line between imagination and reality steadily erodes, opening up a marvelous new world of personal remembrance and fantastic melodrama. A playfully elegiac film from the great Raul Ruiz, conceived to be seen only after his death, Night Across the Street is a beautiful final masterwork exploring the director's favorite subjects: fiction, history and life itself.

Special Features

· Ballet Aquatique (2012, 54 mins), a film by Raul Ruiz
· "Lasting Elements on the Last Horizon," a visual essay by Kevin B. Lee
· Theatrical Trailer
· Booklet featuring Chronicle of a Death Foretold, an essay by James Quandt

Film Reviews

“Four Stars! A moviemaker's farewell to movies. An exuberantly Ruizian meditation on a man’s final days, fondly surreal and lit with a life’s wisdom.”
– Ty Burr, Boston Globe

"A playful supernatural fever dream."
– Stephen Holden, The New York Times

"One of the cinema's grandest, most graceful farewells."
– Richard Brody, The New Yorker

“Both thrillingly irreverent and surprisingly moving. An excellent encapsulation of everything Ruiz did best.”
– David Fear, Time Out New York

Trailer