The Blind Owl

The Blind Owl

90 mins | Drama, Fantasy | Dec. 31, 1987

H., 35, an Arabian immigrant, works as projectionist in an old cinema. One day, drawn by the music, he looks through the window of the booth and is fascinated: the dancer he sees on the screen seems to be looking straight into his eyes. He falls in love with her, but the vision last only a moment. Shortly afterwards, an elderly man storms into the projection booth and claims he is his uncle.
 H. wants to prepare a meal for him and reaches for the oil bottle: he sees the same dancer on the label…. H begins to find echoes of his own life in the images he projects. Everything changes when fiction and reality merge...

The Blind Owl

90 mins | Drama, Fantasy | Dec. 31, 1987

The Blind Owl
H., 35, an Arabian immigrant, works as projectionist in an old cinema. One day, drawn by the music, he looks through the window of the booth and is fascinated: the dancer he sees on the screen seems to be looking straight into his eyes. He falls in love with her, but the vision last only a moment. Shortly afterwards, an elderly man storms into the projection booth and claims he is his uncle.
 H. wants to prepare a meal for him and reaches for the oil bottle: he sees the same dancer on the label…. H begins to find echoes of his own life in the images he projects. Everything changes when fiction and reality merge...
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers Télévision Suisse-Romande, La Sept Cinéma, Light Night, Maison de la Culture du Havre
Original title La Chouette aveugle
Directors Raúl Ruiz
Writers Sadegh Hedayat, Benoît Peeters, Raúl Ruiz