Manuel on the Island of Wonders

Kids

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Mystery

Drama

1984

1 Season

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Episode Guide

January 1, 1984 - January 1, 1984Season 1 of Manuel on the Island of Wonders has 3 episodes.

Season 1 Episodes

S1 E1: Le Jardin interdit

Jan 1, 1984

Part One presents us with three possible worlds. In each world, seven year-old Manoel has a different response to an entreaty from the outside world. Fittingly, in this film in which nothing coincides, the three parts of the story do not coincide with the three-episode structure (the trinity-form recurs frequently in Ruiz). In this case, past, present and future – the unholy trinity or Time en soi – is the film’s very protagonist, variously called ‘long ago’ (Part One), ‘now’ (Part Two), and ‘future’ (Part Three). At the outset, this gives the story an apparent order before digressions take it over.

Series info

This three part French TV serial for children (alternate versions exist as a feature, Manoel’s Destinies, and a 4 part Portuguese TV serial, Adventure in Madeira) is the favourite of many devotees of Raúl Ruiz. This is because it ties the enchantment and mystery of Lewis Carroll, Carlo Collodi and the Brothers Grimm to the filmmaker’s experiments with narrative strategies and what he calls the pentaludic model of storytelling (where characters are thrown dice-like into combinations and situations governed by the play of Chance and Destiny).

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Ratings

IMDB: 7.8TMDB: 6.9

Original Language

French

Creator

Raúl Ruiz

Release Date

January 1, 1984

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