Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody

Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody
Directed by	Raúl Ruiz
Written by	Raúl Ruiz
Produced by	Christian Aspèe Raúl Ruiz
Starring	Bernard Pautrat
Cinematography	Inti Briones
Edited by	Saskia Berthod Jean-Christophe Hym Raúl Ruiz
Music by	Jorge Arriagada
Distributed by	Margo Films
Release date	2002 (2002)
Running time	312 minutes
Countries	Chile, France
Languages	Spanish, French

Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody (Spanish: 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

References

1. "Le Cinéma de Raoul Ruiz: Cofralandes". rouge.com.au. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
2. "Festival awards 2002". fipresci.org. Archived from the original on 2012-05-16. Retrieved 2012-05-10.

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.

External links

• Chilean Rhapsody at IMDb