TREASURE ISLAND

Raul Ruiz
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Festivals / Awards

Cannes 1991- Official Selection

Original title : L'ïle au trésor
Fiction | 1987 | 115'
Director: Raul Ruiz
Countries of production : France - Great Britain - United States
Cast: Melvil Poupaud, Martin Landau, Lou Castel, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Anna Karina
Color - English - 2K restoration

A Chinese-boxes version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic, that playfully refracts the oft-told story of the wide-eyed boy, the pirate quest, Long John Silver, through such differing conventions as those of the TV serial, the role playing game, or psychoanalysis. Disruptive and disjunctive rather than Disneyesque.

Other credits
  • Production: Cannon International, Les Films du Passage
  • Script writers: Raul Ruiz inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Photo: Acácio de Almeida
  • Music: Jorge Arriagada