banshee21 Review of Three Sad Tigers

Three Sad Tigers (1968)

A guy meets a girl, then he tries to flirt with her. The girl's brother doesn't like him.

[1/10 · 4 January 2006]

I finally managed to see this one. I don't get why is always praised as best chilean movie, it certainly isn't. First of all, it's almost impossible to understand what the characters are saying in the whole film. It's hard even for chileans like me. Then, the movie's got no plot at all. There's a fight on an apartment, some conversations on a working class bar, erotic scenes through a window, people sitting on a bus and singing *tres tristes tigres* (a local tongue twister), some cool panoramic shots of Santiago but no more than that. The remains are out-of-focus scenes and bizarre camera angles. Very experimental though. I love Ruiz movies but this one is extremely overrated. Trust me.