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  • Raoul Ruiz – Richard III (1986)

    1981-1990DramaFranceRaoul RuizTV

    Raoul Ruiz’s rare version of Shakespeare’s “Richard III”.
    Richard of Gloucester uses murder and manipulation to claim England’s throne.

    “My mise-en-scène focused on the object: it’s about King Richard III and his vertiginous power. More than on a character, I was focusing on a mechanism: the play of power — with a bias, this time approaching caricature — I wanted to develop all of the parodic forms surrounding the representation of power. The result is somewhat akin to Ubu roi.Read More »

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