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“... There are artfully self-conscious moments in Raúl Ruiz’s Time Regained (1999) which distract us briefly from the film’s amazing achievement: to reveal the last volume of Proust’s intellectual monument (and by implication the rest of the work) for the intricate social soap opera it also is, a universe of stars appropriately represented by Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart and others ...”

“... of you.’ The National Commission on the Disappeared comprised ten citizens chosen by President Raúl Alfonsín, ‘enjoying national and international prestige and known for their commitment to human rights’ (later, three more members were nominated by the Congress). The Commission was to clarify all the events relating to the disappearances and to ...”

“... the subject of an extensive portrait on the radio station France Culture, and even an actor – Raúl Ruiz cast him as Edmond de Goncourt in his 1999 Proust adaptation, Le Temps retrouvé. Perhaps it was ‘time to resume the terrorist activities of the years 1955-60’. One way​ to read Un Roman sentimental is as a return to literary terrorism: an ...”

“... of the former President, has been arrested in connection with the murder of José Francisco Ruiz Massicu, the PRI’s general secretary. The Presidency in Mexico is a modern monarchy, and the change of leaders every six years carried the promise of a new era to come and an old one buried. So there was great relief last December when President Salinas ...”