CITY OF PIRATES (1983) (Church of Film)

Graceful, damned Isidore wanders through life as though it were a dream fractured or decomposing. A homicidal boy named Malo, her husband and other self, purifies her world with blood, fire and violence. She is heading for a castle on an island where her brother, lover, and captor Toby, a man with multiple personalities, dwells. Chilean director Raul Ruiz’s widely hailed Surrealist masterpiece CITY OF PIRATES was written entirely from dreams and autowriting, and moves in gloomy, mystical dream logic. One of cinema’s most enchanted poems!