gridoon2018 The recently deceased Raoul Ruiz was certainly an extremely idiosyncratic director, whose films did not look like anyone else's. Sometimes his experiments could go disastrously wrong ("That Day"), but other times they were fascinating to follow ("Shattered Image"). I think "Comedy Of Innocence" comes closer to the second category. I like this film....but don't ask me to tell you why! Ruiz comes close to doing for cinema what the "abstract painters" did for their art; he fills the screen with "unexplainable" (as even he himself admits) details (e.g., the rolling dice that always comes out the same) that somehow work even if you don't understand their meaning. In the meantime, the main story of "Comedy Of Innocence" is actually quite straightforward, if you pay attention to it; that doesn't mean it's not extremely weird, though! Both female leads give exceptional performances, but extra praise must go to the little boy - undeniably one of the best child performances of the last decade at least. Watch this film when you're in the mood for something you can't quite describe with words. *** out of 4.

mateorau A beautiful film of Chilean director Raul Ruiz; which transports to us through the peculiar world of the Camille young person. It is a new birth as it says well, nine years is serious thing: like all birthday. The glance of Camille is surrealist, is happened to him that her mother no longer is so, but so single a name (Ariane). And with her, it is directed in adventures in search of his mother, who the delay in a place very far. This is the real adventure that my proposes to us - to seem Raoul Ruiz, everything is not imagination neither surrealism, the Camille young person does not try fantasies nor whims as all adult tries to include/understand. Then or it is included/understood or it is not taken care of..., but what it is what happens when the no-reality is approached to us, and falls finally in our same refuges? Different perspective. A very safe one, the one of Camille... its tapes shows the world that sees us... from there down, where the chairs are castles... and the smoke ghosts... On the other hand, the drama... that always remembers thanks to us to the guessed right sound track, the mother who loses her son: and what is worse, it is not kidnapping. one goes away because it must go away more above... and, will really be his mother? The summary appears to us during the film, both faces turn and they appear before the judgment of Salomón... the watching doubt...: to whom to believe? who decides? The negative: The robust step of the fantasy to the reality... the alive explanation of a tragic picture... But really, cinema of which it is possible to be seen more of twice...

robertconnor On his birthday a small boys tells his mother he is not her son, and that he wants to go home to his real mother.In some ways Comedy De L'Innocence feels like it comes from a different time of movie-making, perhaps the 60's or 70's. Certainly it reminded me of Losey's Secret Ceremony (1968), and Richard Loncraine's Full Circle (1977), both of which deal with loss, grief and relationships between parents and 'lost' children (curiously both films star Mia Farrow).All three films are populated with unsympathetic characters who behave in strange and unexplained ways. All three films have a chilly feel, both emotionally and literally. All three films focus on mother-child relationships, and ultimately all three films pose the question - 'what is real, what is imagined?' Beautiful but flawed, it offers no easy answers and leaves much hanging, unexplained and strange.

Jep_Gambardella Shortly after his 9th birthday, Camille tells his mother that he is Paul, the son of another woman, and asks to be reunited with her. She humours him and plays along, but starts to worry when she realizes that Camille and his "new mother" are quite serious.