On Top of the Whale

Year: 1982

Runtime: 97 mins

Language: Dutch

Director: Raúl Ruiz

Fantasy

A satirical take on anthropology, linguistics and cultural imperialism, the story follows an eccentric group of linguists who trek into a fabricated Patagonian landscape to document the final speakers of a vanishing tongue. The language, reduced to a single word, is portrayed as containing every possible meaning.

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