[The Daily] Locarno 2017: Raúl Ruiz’s The Wandering Soap Opera

“Given that this edition of Locarno was its 70th, it was a shame that no special anniversary prize was created and bestowed on Raúl Ruíz's gloriously strange The Wandering Soap Opera,” finds James Lattimer at the House Next Door. “The film's . . .

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