Night Across the Street (2013)
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92% of critics liked it
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58% of users liked it
(240 ratings)
On the verge of a forced retirement, Don Celso, an elderly office worker begins to relive both real and imagined memories from his life - a trip to the movies as a young boy with Beethoven, listening to tall tales from Long John Silver, a brief stay in a haunted hotel. Stories hide within stories… More On the verge of a forced retirement, Don Celso, an elderly office worker begins to relive both real and imagined memories from his life - a trip to the movies as a young boy with Beethoven, listening to tall tales from Long John Silver, a brief stay in a haunted hotel. Stories hide within stories and the thin line between imagination and reality steadily erodes, opening up a marvelous new world of personal remembrance and fantastic melodrama. In this playfully elegiac film, loosely adapted from the fantastical short stories of Chilean writer Hernán del Solar, Raul Ruiz (MYSTERIES OF LISBON) has crafted a final masterwork on his favorite subjects: fiction, history and life itself. (c) Cinema Guild
- Directed By
- Raoul Ruiz
- Written By
- Raoul Ruiz, Hernán del Solar
- Genres
- Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Feb 8, 2013 Limited
- Studio
- Cinema Guild
Critic Reviews
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Tom Keogh, Seattle Times
Elegiac, witty and deeply reflective, "Night Across the Street" strikes a mature and complex tone.
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Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic
It all has a sense of regret and almost relief. It haunts.
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A.O. Scott, New York Times
Raúl Ruiz's elegiac, enigmatic and mischievous final film.
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Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
Unusually suffused with the contrast between experience and memory, reality and surreality.
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Michelle Orange, Village Voice
These are the dreams of a man stepping out of this world, perhaps never more lucid and full of life.
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Cast
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Christian Vadim
as Jean Giono
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Sergio Hernández
as Don Celso, Don Celso Barra
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Valentina Vargas
as Nigilda
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Chamila Rodriguez
as Rosina
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Santiago Figueroa
as Celso as a Young Boy
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Pedro Villagra
as Long John Silver
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Sergio Schmied
as Beethoven
- Pedro Vicuña
- Pablo Krögh
