| Brief Description: | Shot in five languages (one of them imaginary), this film concerns a
European anthropological expedition to Patagonia. The ethnologists set
out to study a tribe of Indians which now consists of merely two
surviving members who speak a strange language made up of only a few
phrases (different meanings are produced by varying the inflections).
A humorous and intellectual film written and directed by Raul Ruiz,
one of the most inventive filmmakers working in Europe today, On Top
of the Whale is filled with audacious visual ideas, and its cold and
misty Northern images often recall Murnau. English, Spanish, French,
Dutch and German with English subtitles. |
