{"id":14074,"date":"2021-03-01T21:00:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T02:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14074"},"modified":"2021-02-28T15:29:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T20:29:32","slug":"tango-of-the-widower-and-its-distorting-mirror-2020-ruiz-sarmiento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14074","title":{"rendered":"Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror (2020, Ruiz &#038; Sarmiento)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After finally catching up with <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14073\">Three Lives<\/a><\/em>, checking out Ruiz&#8217;s latest posthumous release, completed by Valeria Sarmiento.  Due to the vagaries of video releasing this lost\/unfinished film from the mid-60&#8217;s is in better shape than the mid-90&#8217;s hit with the major movie star.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/tangowidower.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Iriarte is a gruff-voiced professor (the soundtrack was lost and all actors were re-dubbed in 2019), bottling sock water with his Jason Schwartzmann-looking nephew Joaquin.  He visits friends Silva and Lola, tells them about his dreams, which involve a wig under the bed, rivers of blood, and the return of his late wife Maria.  Finally, Iriarte can&#8217;t sleep, tormented by wigs, and shoots himself after writing letters to everyone he knows.<\/p>\n<p>The second half is mesmerising, the scenes replaying in reverse with backwards dialogue and new thoughts via voiceover.  Silva and Lola had appeared in <em>Three Sad Tigers<\/em>, and Joaquin joined them in <em>Nadie dijo nada<\/em>.  Ghost Maria reportedly appears in a Sebasti\u00e1n Silva movie, and our main guy was in a couple Miguel Litt\u00c3\u00adn movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After finally catching up with Three Lives, checking out Ruiz&#8217;s latest posthumous release, completed by Valeria Sarmiento. Due to the vagaries of video releasing this lost\/unfinished film from the mid-60&#8217;s is in better shape than the mid-90&#8217;s hit with the major movie star. Iriarte is a gruff-voiced professor (the soundtrack was lost and all actors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,494,1076,67,240,607],"class_list":["post-14074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-dreaming","tag-lost-film","tag-raoul-ruiz","tag-reverse","tag-suicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14094,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14074\/revisions\/14094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}