film On Top of the Whale

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On Top of the Whale Het dak van de Walvis

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social awkwardness, anthropologists, linguists, patagonia, indigenous peoples, vanishing languages, new friends, millionaires, spouses, families, storytelling, research, love triangles, marital separation, childhood, ethnography, dreamlike, translation ~

A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia to study the last speakers of a dying language. That language apparently consists of a single word, which therefore means everything.

Raúl Ruiz
Netherlands, 1982
experimental, comedy, drama, 90m