Shattered Image
R, 102 min.
Directed by Raul Ruiz, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Anne Parillaud, William Baldwin, Bulle Ogier.

Not reviewed at press time. Daring narrative experimentation is cult auteur Raul Ruiz’s forte, and this new murder mystery should be no different. A wealthy young heiress on an island honeymoon (Anne Parillaud of La Femme Nikita) and an assassin for hire (Baldwin) seem only to exist in each other’s dreams. Who’s zooming who? What the recklessly experimental cult auteur Ruiz is doing making a suspense thriller is anyone’s guess. And moreover, what’s he doing casting a Baldwin brother? More experimentation, we hope.

This article appears in December 11 • 1998 (Cover).

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.