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Régime sans pain

1985 · 75 min

A dreamlike, disjointed collage of music-video fragments that drifts between absurd sci-fi imagery and deadpan surrealism, rewarding patience but resisting easy sense.

Directed by
Raúl Ruiz
Genres
Fantasy, Music, Science fiction
Starring
Anne Alvaro, Olivier Angèle, Gérard Maimone
Overview
Régime sans pain, influenced by (Ruiz's) friend Jean Baudrillard (and calling) to mind grade-Z SF, grew out of a commission to direct a music video (featuring French cult rock duo of Angèle/Maimone). Ruiz offered a counterproposal that he direct several music videos rather than one; once this deal was made, he shot enough material to interconnect the various videos until he arrived at a feature.

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Directed by
Raúl Ruiz
Genres
Fantasy, Music, Science fiction
Starring
Anne Alvaro, Olivier Angèle, Gérard Maimone
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Tone
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • technology
  • media
  • isolation
  • art
Places
  • fantasy world
Era
far-future
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • musical
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror3
Humour4
Realism2
Romance2
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity8
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
fantasy, music, science fiction
Directed by
Raúl Ruiz
Written by
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Starring
Anne Alvaro, Olivier Angèle, Gérard Maimone
Cinematography
Acácio de Almeida
Runtime
75 min
Country
France
Languages
French

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