Manuel de Ribera

BAFICI 2010
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Film Information:
Year:

2010

Manuel de Ribera
País:

 
Directores:

Christopher MurrayPablo Carrera
Color:

Color
Format:

Digibeta
Duration:

90 min

Cast:

  • Eugenio Morales
  • Samuel González
  • Eliana del Rosario Almonacid

Production:

  • GUIÓN: Pablo Carrera,
  • Christopher Murray
  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Raúl Heuty
  • MONTAJE: Antonio Luco
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Bruno Bettati

Contact:

  • Jirafa Films
  • Bruno Bettati
  • Pérez Rosales 787, of. A
  • 5110652 Valdivia, Chile
  • T +56 63 213 556
  • F +56 63 213 556
  • E bruno@jirafa.cl
  • W www.jirafa.cl

Synopsis

Chilean film Manuel de Ribera features two different constructions: the first one unfolds within the fictional world of Christopher Murray and Pablo Carrera’s first film: 48 year-old Manuel de Ribera inherits an island. He then decides to create and (re)create: he creates a community that builds houses to donate in his land and disguises himself as an altruist while he’s actually becoming a landlord. The second construction has to do with the filmmaking method: improvisation (when one of them was filming, the other one was writing the next scene) and the use of minimalism as a strategy for both a micro and a telescopic perspective (on the micro side, Ribera’s trap of wanting to be human above all, and on the other, the irrationality of recreating and following a class system as a matter of habit). A two-headed construction then, but one that results in one of the most ambiguously potent stories of today’s Chilean cinema.

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