THREE CROWNS OF THE SAILOR

In one of Raúl Ruiz’s defining movies, a drunken sailor recounts his life story to a murderous student.

Tall tales are exhumed from the drunken fog of memory in this hallucinatory maritime adventure in storytelling from Raúl Ruiz. The fractured narrative design and dazzling, poetic visuals lend the destabilizing sense of being at sea, albeit in a vessel clearly being steered by a cinematic master.