On Top of the Whale

Name: On Top of the Whale
Rating: 7.0

Not Rated Fantasy

Starring: Willeke van Ammelrooy, Jean Badin, Fernando Bordeu, Herbert Curiel, Amber De Grau

Writer: Raúl Ruiz

Release Date:
February 4, 1982

Ratings:
7.0 / 10

Director:
Raúl Ruiz

Companies:
Film International Rotterdam

Overview

A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia to study the last speakers of a dying language. That language apparently consists of a single word, which therefore means everything.

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