Combat d’amour en songe (2000) - film review

Nine bizarre stories are interwoven as a visual fantasy.  A jewel is stolen from a "living" painting; a mirror has the power to steal whatever it reflects; a young man’s future is foreseen by an internet website; a seminary student dresses up as a priest so that he can listen to confessions; a Catholic man discovers that he is really a Jew; brothers fight as they search for some rings; and a treasure hunt leads to...

After his haunting dream-like adaptation of Marcel Proust – Le Temps retrouvé (1999) – Raoul Ruiz’s Combat d’amour en songe is an even more baffling, free-flowing work in which the conventional linear narrative format is all but totally dispensed with.  Experimental and slightly off-putting, this is possibly Ruiz’s least accessible, most self-indulgent work to date.

© James Travers 2006

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