On Top of the Whale
Het dak van de Walvis
1982 · 1h 37m · Drama, Fantasy · Netherlands
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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Raúl Ruiz6.2Smart score
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