A Taste for Murder (Une Place parmi les vivants)
A Taste for Murder is Chilean master Raúl Ruiz's playful concoction of noir murder mystery set in Paris in the 1940s. With a writer who can't come up with anything original and a very original serial killer who wants his memoirs written, Ruiz plays with Jekyll and Hyde, Faust and noir conventions to create an utterly stylish, intricate and thought-provoking delight.
Reviews
“Ruiz gives us an idiosyncratically internationalist neo-noir, ranging in its references from Chandler to Ellroy via Simenon. But murders are never just murders in his films: death always triggers a metaphysical disquisition on after-life, the undead and the scarcely living.”
Adrian Martin, Rotterdam International Film Festival
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12:15 PM Friday, 25 February
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General FeaturesAbout A Taste for Murder
101 minutes35mm
1.85:1
In French
Print Source
Unite Fiction
Delphine Pertus
d-pertus@artefrance.fr
Festivals
Montreal Festival of Nouveau Cinéma 2004Chicago 2004
Rotterdam 2004
Venice 2003
About the Director
Raúl Ruiz
Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz is one of the most innovative and versatile filmmakers in international cinema. Before becoming a director, Ruiz wrote over 100 plays for avant-garde theatre between 1956 and 1962. He began playing with filmmaking in the early 1960s, but did not release a full feature - Three Sad Tigers until 1968. Ruiz's political activities forced him into to self-exile during the politically tempestuous 70s. Since 1973, he has been living in Paris where he has worked in European television while also continuing to make features. His films are characterised by fantastic images that deftly meld reality with imagination. To create his images, he utilises a variety of strange camera angles, close-ups, bright colours, and complex plotlines that force the audience to work hard to understand his message.
Filmography
Day in the Country (2004)A Taste for Murder (2003)
That Day (2003)
Medea (2003)
Chilean Rhapsody (2002)
Moitte by Ruiz (2001)
Les Âmes fortes (2001)
Comedy of Innocence (2000)
Time Regained (1999)
Shattered Image (1998)
Geneologies of a Crime (1997)
Three Lives and only One Death (1996)
Fado Major and Minor (1995)
Dark at Noon, or Eyes and Lies (1993)
The Wayward Tele-Novel (1990)
The Golden Boat (1990)
Behind the Wall (1989)
Allegoria (1988)
The Blind Owl (1987)
Memory of Appearances (aka Life is a Dream) (1986)
Treasure Island (1986)
Manoel's Destinies (1985)
Regime Without Bread (1984)
Richard III (1984)
Sleepwalker on the Alma Bridge (1984)
Vanishing Point (1984)
The Real Presence (1983)
City of Pirates (1983)
Bérénice (1983)
Three Crowns of a Sailor (1982)
The Roof of the Whale (1981)
The Territory (1981)
Le Borgne (1980)
Images de débat (1979)
Of Great Events and Ordinary People (1978)
The Divisions of Nature (1978)
Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (1978)
The Suspended Vocation (1977)
Dialogue of Exiles (1974)
White Dove (1973)
El realismo socialista (1973)
No One Said Anything (1971)
The Penal Colony (1970)
¿Qué hacer? (1970)
Three Sad Tigers (1968)