Cinema
Three Sad Tigers
Tres tristes tigres
Raúl Ruiz · 1968
Synopsis
Tito, a small-time car salesman in Santiago, lives under the pressure of his boss, Rudy. After losing the papers for a sale, he takes his sister Amanda, who earns her living as a stripper, to Rudy in the hope of keeping his job. The film follows these lower-middle-class characters, the brother, the sister and a friend, in their night-time wandering from one bar to another; Ian Christie sees in it the everyday violence and moral cynicism of an alienated urban class.
Context
A free adaptation of a play by Alejandro Sieveking, this first feature film by its author was shot in 1968 with Nelson Villagra, Shenda Román, Jaime Vadell and Luis Alarcón. Ian Christie notes in it the influence of the Nouvelle Vague and of John Cassavetes's Shadows, and recalls that it was the first of three films shot in succession with the same camera, before Valparaíso mi amor and El chacal de Nahueltoro. It shared the Golden Leopard at the Locarno festival in 1969; long abandoned and almost lost, it was restored in the early nineties, according to Memoria Chilena.
Who it is for
A film of about one hundred minutes, without emphatic plot, with a suspended rhythm; shown in French under the title Trois tristes tigres.
Prizes and reception
Co-winner of the Locarno grand prize in 1969, and praised by Chilean and European critics from its release.
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