Fado, Major and Minor
Life Is a Dream: The Films of Raúl Ruiz (Part 2)
February 9 - 18, 2018
After blacking out, a tour guide returns to his apartment and finds a mysterious intruder who holds him accountable for his lover’s death. Toggling modes of farce and tragedy (and punctuated by Iberian sea shanties), Ruiz’s rarely screened adaptation of Dostoevsky’s The Eternal Husband is one of his most elliptical and intriguing works.
Ruiz returned to Portugal, the locale of many of his films, to adapt Dostoevsky’s The Eternal Husband, and the end product, Fado, Major and Minor, is among the most elliptical and intriguing works in his filmography. Jean-Luc Bideau stars as a tour guide who after blacking out returns to his apartment to find a mysterious intruder (Melvil Poupaud) who holds him accountable for the death of his lover. After premiering at Cannes, the film all but vanished due to rights issues, but it endures for Ruiz’s toggles between tragedy and farce, black and white and color, pop music and the traditional fatalistic sea shanties of its title.
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