La Ville des pirates

A desolate young woman named Isodore works for her “father” and “mother”, who treat her like a servant. Isodore no longer wants accept her fate, and she considers suicide. When she decides against it, she ends up in various dream-like situations.

Adrian Martin: “Raúl Ruiz claimed a motto from Cuban writer José Lezama Lima: ‘The task of the poet is to conjure a waterfall in the middle of a room.’ City of Pirates provides a hallucinatory, free-associative tour through the many varieties of Surrealism.”

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