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On Top of the Whale

On Top of the Whale

Original title
Het Dak Van de Walvis
Year
1982
Gender
Fantasy
Director
Raoul Ruiz
Country
Netherlands
Details
90 minutes / colored / sound

A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia to study the last speakers of a dying language. That language apparently consists of a single word, which therefore means everything.

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