Treasure Island (1986 film)

Treasure Island
Film poster
French: L'île au trésor
Directed byRaúl Ruiz
Written byRaúl Ruiz
Based onTreasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Produced byPaulo Branco
António Vaz da Silva
StarringMelvil Poupaud
CinematographyAcácio de Almeida
Edited byValeria Sarmiento
Music byJorge Arriagada
Distributed byCannon Films
Release date
  • 1986 (1986)
Running time
115 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
France
United States
LanguageEnglish

Treasure Island (French: L'île au trésor) is a 1986 fabulist metafiction film directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.[1] 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.[2] 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.

The film's play on the traditional narrative of an iconic and frequently dramatized story is very representative of Ruiz' oneiric approach and style. Ruiz takes his fondness for cartography to a new level with Stevenson's narrative, making the book into a map to the treasure in this rendition.[3]

  1. ^ "Juries". Festival de Cannes. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  2. ^ Goddard, Michael (1 January 2013). "Impossible Cartographies". The Cinema of Raúl Ruiz: Impossible Cartographies. Columbia University Press. doi:10.7312/godd16730. ISBN 9780231850506. JSTOR 10.7312/godd16730.
  3. ^ Rosenbaum, Johnathan (1997). "Ruiz Hopping and Buried Treasure: Twelve selected Global Sites". Film Comment. 33 (1): 14–27. JSTOR 43455240.

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