Three Sad Tigers
Original title: Tres Tristes Tigres
Year: 1967
Director: Raúl Ruiz
Country of origin: Chile
Based on the play of the same name by Alejandro Sieveking, “Three Sad Tigers” is the first feature film in the extensive career of Chilean director Raúl Ruiz. The film is a cinematic interpretation of the atmosphere and spirit of Chile’s capital at the end of the 1960s, on the eve of President Salvador Allende’s electoral triumph. We follow a few days in the life of characters that Ruiz defines as “marginals in their own social classes”, through unstable images from a hand-held camera, uncertain times and diffuse spaces, a realistic approach to cinema that was innovative in its break with the Hollywood melodramas distributed in Latin America at the time. It was awarded the Golden Leopard, the main prize at the Locarno Film Festival.
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