- Actors: Raul Ruiz
- Directors: Raul Ruiz
- Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
- Language: French
- Subtitles: English
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- MPAA Rating:
- Studio: Facets Video
- Release Date: Sep 26 2006
- Run Time: 66 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000GTJSEY
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #51,740 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
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Chilean born director Raul Ruiz offers an enigmatic musing on the nature of art interpretation in this unusual mystery centered on a stolen painting.A bumbling art collector attempts to reconstruct the content of a painting missing from a series of seven painted 100 years earlier by an eccentric artist. To help him in his task, a group of actors pose as the figures in the paintings to create a series of human tableaux. The collector makes far-fetched thematic connections between the tableaux as a way to figure out what the missing artwork might look like while alluding to the scandals, mysteries, and conspiracies surrounding the paintings.Beautifully photographed by legendary cinematographer Sacha Vierny (NIGHT AND FOG, BELLE DE JOUR, STARVISKY) and based on the provocative novel by Pierre Klossowski, HYPOTHESIS OF A STOLEN PAINTING gives new meaning to the phrase “intellectual thriller.”As an added bonus, Ruiz’s film THE SUSPENDED VOCATION–also based on a novel by the idiosyncratic Klossowski–is included on this DVD.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Vicious Circle,
By Eddie Watkins (Philadelphia, PA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hypothesis of Stolen Painting (VHS Tape)
This movie was (at least initially) inspired by Pierre Klossowski's novel The Baphomet, and was co-written by him. Klossowski, besides being the older brother of the painter Balthus, is also the author of a study of Nietzsche's thought entitled Nietzsche And The Vicious Circle; which is a study of perhaps his strangest idea, the eternal return. As The Baphomet is a novel based on principles of the eternal return, so is this movie. It is a mystery of sorts masquerading as a pseudo-documentary on an unknown (fictional) painter. All the surviving works by this painter are linked together into an enigmatic narrative made even more elusive by the absence of the one painting which is the key to the narrative circle (actually, any of the paintings, if missing, would've also been the missing key). The film is largely composed of live model reproductions of the paintings, and as the film progresses the actors within the paintings begin to move. The content of the missing painting is hypothesized by the convergence of the narratives extrapolated from the paintings on either side of it; but even the sequence of the paintings is hypothetical. It is a real head-piece, very tightly constructed - a baffling thought provoking gem.
5.0 out of 5 stars
The theoretical fantasy of Raoul Ruiz,
By A Customer
This review is from: Hypothesis of Stolen Painting (VHS Tape)
I originally watched this movie because I'd read in an Italian trade paper that Arthur Brand had contributed to, or possibly even written a bulk of, the screenplay. But this is not the case. It's actually by Raoul Ruiz, and from the documentation included with the video edition it's uncertain whether Brand had anything to do with the making of it. Brand IS interested in the kinds of site-specific artworks that clearly fascinate Ruiz, and it's possible that Brand's commentaries on installations formed an inspiration for the film, but none of this is even hinted at in the secondary materials. Yes, Ruiz properly belongs to that family of poets, Borges and Pessoa included, who are obsessed by the very notion of commentary. But the connection between Brand and Ruiz is even closer. I hardly want to start a dispute, but The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting is structured through a dramatization of the gulf that separates the work of art from its perception (reception?) in the eyes of the critic or viewer--for any knowledgeable reader, this is vintage Brand. And the scene in which the priest confesses to the youthful sinner is hardly to be questioned. Whatever the relationship (Brand WAS devoted to the movies), I would highly recommend any film by Ruiz, especially this one. I'd also recommend his tiny book on cinema, which might only be available in a European edition.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
I stare at this movie without blinking,
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This review is from: Hypothesis of Stolen Painting (VHS Tape)
I can't explain what this movie does to me without sounding like a fool, I can't explain what I think it means without sounding like a pompous ass, and I can't explain the plot of it without sounding like a bore. I can tell you that I love this film. You might hate it, but at least you'll give it a chance, right?
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