Treasure Island
Treasure Island is a 1985 fabulist metafiction film directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. French, British and American companies funded Ruiz's obscure and complex adaptation of the classic 1883 coming-of-age adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island stars a young Melvil Poupaud, a familiar face in Ruiz's filmography, alongside popular veteran actors such as Martin Landau, Anna Karina and Jean-Pierre Léaud.
Plot
Treasure Island opens with the narrator, who is both the main character, Jonathan, and Jim Hawkins (Melvil Poupaud), describing a violent television show that he is watching about African civil war and the theft of diamonds. Then the film moves to the shabby hotel owned and run by Jonathan's drunken father (Lou Castel), and peculiar mother (Anna Karina) where they take in as few guests as possible.
More details
| author | Raúl Ruiz |
|---|---|
| director | Raúl Ruiz |
| editor | Valeria Sarmiento |
| events | piracy |
| genre | adventure |
| keywords | abandon ship battle scene blind man bury capture ceiling civil war drug force game game theory israel hands jim hawkins kill laugh long john silver mysterious man new family on the beach open read running on the beach sacred silver speak television show treasure island west |
| musicBy | Jorge Arriagada |
| producer | Paulo Branco |
| publisher | Cannon Films |
| theme | dance |