On Top of the Whale

On Top of the Whale

1h 37m 1982 Fantasy Netherlands
Budget: - Revenue: -

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.

Director

Raúl Ruiz

Writer

Raúl Ruiz