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| Spanish | La telenovela errante |
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| Edited by | Galut Alarcón |
| Music by | Jorge Arriagada |
Production company | Poetastros |
| Distributed by | Poetastros |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | Chile |
| Language | Spanish |
| Box office | $3,624[2] |
The Wandering Soap Opera (Spanish: La telenovela errante) is a 2017 Chilean comedy-drama film directed by Raúl Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento.[3] Ruiz directed the film in 1990 and Sarmiento supervised the editing in 2017.[4]
In seven chapters, Chilean reality is portrayed as a surreal collection of soap operas that overlap with one another.[5]
The Wandering Soap Opera was originally filmed by Raúl Ruiz in 1990, but was unfinished.[5] In 2017, Ruiz's widow, Valeria Sarmiento, completed the film.[5] The film was shot in Super 16 mm film.[5][6]
The film debuted at the Locarno Festival in 2017, and later premiered in the United States at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.[7] The Cinema Guild distributed the film in North America.[7][6]
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