The Wandering Soap Opera (2017)

La Telenovela Errante was funny and weird and slightly surreal. It's an absurdist satire in the style of a novela, but it's a satire of... well... I don't quite know because I'm not Chilean. It felt like I missed a lot of these references.

The entire thing is made even stranger by the fact that Raúl Ruiz wasn't able to finish the film before he died, and so the film we see is something compiled after his death and finally released in the U.S. only in 2019.

La Telenevola Errante is a densely referential film, and it's at least partially about the Dirty War, about torture, about the desaparecidos. Most of this, though, I missed. Still, I laughed a lot even if this wasn't made for me.