Fireworks Logo

Trailers...

  • Murder in Glitterball City
  • Hag
  • Call Me Mother
  • Furies (The)
  • Bowels of Hell
  • For Worse
  • Extra Geography
  • Our Family Pride
  • Jaripeo
  • Uchronia: Parallel Histories of Queer Revolt
  • Passion According to GHB (The)
  • Wuthering Heights
  • This Is Not a Test
  • Forbidden Fruits
  • Hélène trésore transationale
  • Snow Falling on Pumpkins
  • Island
  • Khameleon
  • Morrigan (The)
  • Whistle
  • Twisted
  • The 'Burbs
  • Don’t Come Out
  • Alabama Solution (The)
  • Laid Bare
  • Lucid
  • Hollow Lake
  • Free
  • Scham
  • Anniversary
  • Mohammed & Paul Once Upon a Time in Tangier
  • Raging
  • Perfeitos Desconhecidos
  • Kiss and Be Friends
  • Gravity
  • This is I
  • Unicorni
  • Angel Lust
  • Jim Queen and the Quest for Chloroqueer
  • Life Is

Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (The)

Country: France, Language: French, 66 mins

Original Title

L'hypothèse du Tableau Volé
  • Director: Raoul Ruiz
  • Writer: Raoul Ruiz; Pierre Klossowski

CGiii Comment

Bemusing, bewildering and beautiful - the surreal attracts little audience, the mystery does quite the opposite.

Merge them and this is a possible outcome - not for everyone...but, painstakingly detailed...demanding concentration and research.

As stated, not for everyone.


Trailer...

The(ir) Blurb...

Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, featuring real people, sometimes moving, in an effort to explain the series' significance.

Cast & Characters

Jean Rougeul as The collector;
Chantal Paley as Tableaux Personnel;
Jean Raynaud as Tableaux Personnel;
Daniel Grimm as Tableaux Personnel;
Isidro Romero as Tableaux Personnel;
Bernard Daillencourt as Tableaux Personnel;
Jean-Damien Thiollier as Tableaux Personnel;
Alix Comte as Tableaux Personnel;
Christian Broutin as Tableaux Personnel;