Shattered Image
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| Directed by | Raoul Ruiz |
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Barbet Schroeder Lloyd A. Silverman Susan Hoffman |
| Written by | Duane Poole |
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| Music by | Jorge Arriagada |
| Cinematography | Robby Müller |
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| Distributed by | Lions Gate Films |
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103 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $102,523 (24 Screens) |
Shattered Image (1998) is a thriller drama film written by Duane Poole and directed by Raoul Ruiz. It starred William Baldwin, Anne Parillaud and Lisanne Falk.
According to University of Salford, UK senior lecturer Michael Goddard this confusing and surreal film about complicated identities, "parallel David Lynch's moebius strip style films also dealing with parallel identities and realities that he was making at [the same] time, Lost Highway (1997) and Mulholland Dr. (2001)."
In film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum's interview with Raul Ruiz, Ruiz calls Shattered Image an "American accident." He explains some of his opinions and experiences of the top to down "disconnected" filmmaking process in America. Ruiz says, " Shattered Image, I fought to make, and I now have a film about what it means to make a film in America - why American movies are the way they are. It's a very strange film because I thought about it in the terms of American movies. In the American cinema there are good guys and bad guys. The good guys are the artists, let's say the filmmakers, and the bad guys are the actors, sometimes the producers. I found new bad guys, who were the technicians, the workers, who were so obviously disconnected with the project, with the story of the movie. In France, you can get a good price from an electrician if he likes a script, if he finds it interesting and not very commercial he can, let’s say, work Saturdays for free. And I thought that the relationship with the producer was ambiguous because he had the money coming from everywhere and he had to deal with those other producers, and everyone had a very precise idea about the movie. And the discussion was at the level of where to put the camera. That was new for me. The idea that I decided where to put the camera was new to them. The editor was the director, and not the cameraman."
Confusing realities surface in this paranoid film dealing with the fragile nature of a young woman, Jessie (Anne Parillaud) recovering from rape and an apparent attempted suicide. In one reality, she is a killer destroyer of men. In another she is the new wife on a Jamaican honeymoon with her new husband Brian (William Baldwin), who is trying to help her recover. As Jessie switches between realities through her dreams she seeks to figure out who the other Jessie is and why she is seeing her. As the dramatically different realities start to merge causing grave implications questions start to arise. Is someone trying to kill Jessie, can Jessie trust her new husband Brian, and most importantly who is the real Jessie?
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