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Life Is a Dream (1986) Plot Summary Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1986 · 100 mins · French
- Directed by
- Raúl Ruiz
- Starring
- Roch Leibovici, Jean-François Lapalus, Jean-Bernard Guillard, Bénédicte Sire, Sylvain Thirolle
Blending baroque aesthetics with revolutionary politics, pop‑culture references and semiotic play, the film loosely adapts Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s classic drama. It follows a young prince who discovers that existence itself is a dream, awakening only at death, and that the boundaries between dream and reality may be indistinguishable.
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