Why it is so difficult to count fish in an aquarium? Filmmaker Raúl Ruiz, his loyal actor Melvil Poupaud and his producer François Margolin come up with a wide range of hypotheses. With their bone-dry wit, they keep up the tradition of the French pataphysics: the science of imaginary solutions.
Made in tribute to the underwater films of Jean Painlevé, Ballet Aquatique is one of the final works from Raúl Ruiz. Combining excerpts from Painlevé with droll, existential musings from a panel of talking heads, this associative essay film blends subaquatic wonder with surreal flights of fancy.
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