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Vanishing Point
Vanishing Point
6.2
/10
140 Ratings

VANISHING POINT

Point de fuite

Directed by Raúl Ruiz
Portugal, France, 1984
Avant-Garde, Drama, Comedy

Synopsis

An island retreat. A man, his face bandaged, plays cards nonchalantly. His ex-wife arrives. Conversations happen.

Synopsis

An island retreat. A man, his face bandaged, plays cards nonchalantly. His ex-wife arrives. Conversations happen.

Our take

From Raúl Ruiz, we present a rarity: a B-side to his magnum opus City of Pirates. Gone are that film’s extravagant colours, Vanishing Point instead offering us a strange, soaring experimental 75-minute black-and-white chamber piece, allegedly made in one day and shot “as a joke.”