''Dialogues of Exiles'' ( es, Diálogos de exiliados, french: Dialogue d'exilés) is a 1975 French-Chilean
satirical film with
documentary elements directed by
Raúl Ruiz.
Plot
Chilean exiles in
Paris
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are shown discussing the challenges they faced following the
1973 Chilean coup d'état
The 1973 Chilean coup d'état Enciclopedia Virtual > Historia > Historia de Chile > Del gobierno militar a la democracia" on LaTercera.cl. Retrieved 22 September 2006.
In October 1972, Chile suffered the first of many strikes. Among the par ...
. In an attempt to reeducate a touring singer from their homeland, they kidnap him. This marks Ruiz's debut French film, in which he examines the mannerisms and language used by his fellow exiles. Having been a member of this community, he depicts a shared sense of belonging among those living in exile, brought together by the tragic downfall of the
Allende government and the brutality of the
Pinochet dictatorship
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Cast
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Françoise Arnoul
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Early life
Born in Constantine, French Algeria, as the daughter of stage ac ...
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Carla Cristi
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Daniel Gélin
Daniel Yves Alfred Gélin (19 May 1921 – 29 November 2002) was a French film and television actor.
Early life
Gélin was born in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, the son of Yvonne (née Le Méner) and Alfred Ernest Joseph Gélin.
When he was ten, ...
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Sergio Hernández
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Percy Matas
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Etienne Bolo
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Edgardo Cozarinsky
Edgardo Cozarinsky (; born 1939 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a writer and filmmaker. He is best known for his Spanish-language novel ''Vudú urbano''.
Life
Cozarinsky was born to an Argentine family of Ukrainian-Jewish descent. His name reflects ...
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* Huguette Bello (born 1950), politician from Reunion
* Huguette Béolet (1919–unknown), French table tennis player
* Huguette Bouchardeau (born 1935), French politic ...
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Luis Poirot
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Waldo Rojas
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Valeria Sarmiento
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Reception
''Dialogues of Exiles'' ultimately led to Ruiz's ostracism from the Chilean exile community due to its critical and, at times, unfriendly portrayal of them. Ruiz's depiction of the exiles is laced with scathing humor, and many complained that he had trivialized serious issues such as adaptation, language, space, integration, and
cultural shock
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. Despite the backlash, he continued to explore themes of Chilean identity, dictatorship, and exile in his films.
[Blaine, Patrick. "Reconstructing Resistant Memory in the Chilean Social Documentary: Guzmán and Ruiz." ''Morningside College. Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Toronto, Canada''. 2010.]
Bibliography
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* Blaine, Patrick. "Reconstructing Resistant Memory in the Chilean Social Documentary: Guzmán and Ruiz." ''Morningside College. Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Toronto, Canada''. 2010
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References
External links
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*https://web.archive.org/web/20170303202239/http://basessibi.c3sl.ufpr.br/brapci/_repositorio/2015/12/pdf_fb223e9805_0000013443.pdf
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1975 films
1970s Spanish-language films
1975 drama films
Films directed by Raúl Ruiz
Chilean drama films