Life Is a Dream

Year: 1986

Runtime: 100 mins

Language: French

Director: Raúl Ruiz

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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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