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The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror
7.6
/10
148 Ratings

Synopsis

A man is haunted by the ghost of his wife, who appears everywhere he goes. Gradually, he starts to resemble her, spiraling into a chilling reality where we learn he was never married. Instead, it’s a psychological unraveling—a schizophrenic game of identity and illusion.

Our take

Originally intended to be Raúl Ruiz’s debut feature in 1967, this experimental drama was posthumously revived by Valeria Sarmiento through editing and dialogue reconstruction. The melancholic and the grotesque become strange bedfellows, as a haunted widow descends into a whirlpool of hallucinations.