{"id":3533,"date":"2020-02-05T16:20:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T20:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antes.cinemachile.cl?p=3533"},"modified":"2020-02-07T14:33:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T18:33:10","slug":"valeria-sarmiento-sobre-el-tango-del-viudo-y-el-espejo-deformante-de-ruiz-a-veces-adivinaba-lo-que-el-queria-hacer-espero-que-en-este-film-haya-sido-igual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antes.cinemachile.cl\/en\/espanol-pelicula-de-raul-ruiz-abrira-seccion-forum-de-la-berlinale-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Valeria Sarmiento on \u2018The Tango of the Widower and its Distorting Mirror\u2019 by Ruiz: \u201cSometimes I\u2019d guess what he wanted to do; I hope that in this film this is the case\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tango of the Widower and its Distorting Mirror is the title of the film, directed by Ra\u00fal Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento, that will have its world premiere in the Forum section at the Berlinale (February 20 – March 1) and that, in addition, will be responsible for kicking off the category. Forum\u2019s objective is to broaden understanding of what cinema is, test the limits of its conventions, and open up to new perspectives to help comprehend cinema and how it relates to the world in new ways, thus positioning itself as a highly prestigious section with a selective program.<\/p>\n

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Ra\u00fal Ruiz y Valeria Sarmiento, 1969<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sarmiento, who in 2018 premiered her latest film The Black Book, is a prolific Chilean director and editor, and was the one responsible for concluding the work that late filmmaker Ra\u00fal Ruiz initiated in 1967 and was not able to finish due to the lack of funding. In the words of Sarmiento, \u201cMy work consisted in turning the film into a contemporary piece.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the restoration and completion of the film, Sarmiento was accompanied by the team behind production company Poetastros, which is made up of actress-producer Chamilla Rodr\u00edguez and audiovisualist Galut Alarc\u00f3n, also responsible for salvaging and reconstructing material from the film The Wandering Soap Opera in 2016 and 2017, also by Ruiz, and which premiered in 2017 at the Locarno Film Festival. Meanwhile, this film, like a large part of Ruiz and Sarmiento\u2019s filmography, boasts the collaboration of renowned artist Jorge Arriagada, who was in charge of putting music to the piece with elements such as a sonata composed for a chamber orchestra of saws played with metal bows and theremins.<\/p>\n

In the words of Ruiz, \u201cThe story of \u2018The Tango of the Widower and its Distorting Mirror\u2019 revolves around a man whose late wife appears to him as a ghost. The ghost follows him everywhere, under the bed, under tables\u2026 The more she appears, the more the man begins to resemble her, becoming more and more feminine, in a spiral through which we discover that he was never married, and that it\u2019s simply a splitting of his personality and a schizophrenic game.\u201d The film stars Luis Alarc\u00f3n, who participated in a large part of Ruiz\u2019s work, and Delfina Guzm\u00e1n, who is renowned to this day for her extensive career in theater and television.<\/p>\n

Regarding what it was like to reconstruct the film after 50 years, Sarmiento comments, \u201cSix numbered reels were found from 2 to 7. One reel was missing and none of them had sound. I suppose that in that era, since there was no direct sound, they had always imagined dubbing it later in a studio. And that\u2019s what we did. Thanks to three women who could read their lips, we were able to reconstruct part of the dialogues. Later, a new script had to be worked on, and to that end I worked with Omar Saavedra Santis.\u201d<\/p>\n

The relationship between the two directors began after the completion of the feature film Three Sad Tigers (1968) and ended with Night Across the Street (2011), the last film shot by Ruiz before his death. This close relationship allowed a kind of creative complicity to be developed, about which Sarmiento confesses, \u201cSometimes I\u2019d guess what he wanted to do; I hope that in this film \u2014 The Tango of the Widower and its Distorting Mirror \u2014 this is the case.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following the presentation of The Tango of the Widower and its Distorting Mirror in Forum, the filmmaker comments that she plans to continue developing a feature film project with Poetastros to be shot in Valpara\u00edso, her hometown. \u201cWe\u2019ll see if we achieve it. It\u2019s called Detr\u00e1s de la lluvia [literally: \u2018behind the rain\u2019],\u201d says Sarmiento.<\/p>\n

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Luis Alarc\u00f3n in \u2018The Tango of the Widower and its Distorting Mirror\u2019, premiering soon in Forum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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