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The Blind Owl (1987) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1987 · 90 mins · French
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- Directed by
- Raúl Ruiz
- Starring
- Alain Rimoux, Jessica Forde, Jean-François Lapalus, Jean-Bernard Guillard, Camila Mora-Scheihing, François Berthet
H., 35, an Arabian immigrant, works as a projectionist in an old cinema. Peering through the booth window, he is captivated by a dancer on the screen who appears to look directly at him, causing a brief infatuation. An elderly man arrives, claiming to be his uncle. When H. reaches for oil, the dancer’s face is on the label, and his projected images start mirroring his life, blurring fiction and reality.
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