''The Blind Owl'' (French: ''La chouette aveugle'') is a 1987
art film
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directed by Chilean filmmaker
Raúl Ruiz. It is an
oneiric Oneiric most commonly refers to:
* Dreams, during sleep
* Oneirology, the science of dreams
Oneiric may also refer to:
* Oneiric (film theory), dreams as a metaphor for film—or in critiques thereof
* ''Oneiric'' (album), 2006, by Boxcutter
* ' ...
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metafictional
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work with some scenes and characters loosely based on the 1937 book ''
The Blind Owl
''The Blind Owl'' (1936; fa, بوف کور, ''Boof-e koor'', ) is Sadegh Hedayat's magnum opus and a major literary work of 20th century Iran. Written in Persian, it is narrated by an unnamed pen case painter, who addresses his murderous conf ...
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Persian
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* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
writer
Sadegh Hedayat
Sadegh Hedayat ( fa, صادق هدایت ; 17 February 1903 – 9 April 1951) was an Iranian writer and translator. Best known for his novel '' The Blind Owl'', he was one of the earliest Iranian writers to adopt literary modernism in their care ...
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1987 films
French fantasy drama films
Films directed by Raúl Ruiz
Films based on works by Sadegh Hedayat
1980s French films
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