Raoul Ruiz, filmmaker and visionary, dies at 70

PARIS -- French-Chilean filmmaker Raoul Ruiz, who had been revered for his singular literary adaptations, died of complications from lung infection Thursday in Paris. He was 70.An abundant and significantly-acclaimed helmer, Ruiz had won Gaul's Louis Delluc prize, the film equal to in france they literary Goncourt prize, for "Mysteries of Lisbon."Ruiz, who had been fighting a cancer discovered 2 yrs ago while filming "Lisbon," was still being highly devoted to his are a movie director.The filmmaker had just completed lensing "La Noche p enfrente" strarring Christian Vadim, and that he was preparing "As Linhas p Torres," a Portugal-set war drama, which in fact had Mathieu Almaric, John Malkovich and Jum Seydoux mounted on star.The helmer fled to France in early '70s to flee Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, after penetrating together with his feature debut, "Three Sad Tigers," which won Locarno's Golden Leopard in 1968.A number one figure of Chile's Cinema of Resistance movement, the politically-engaged Ruiz directed "Dialogues from the Exiled," inspired by playwright Bertolt Brecht's Refugee Conversations.Ruiz later sparked worldwide recognition with films for example Catherine Deneuve starrer "Time Obtained" according to Marcel Proust classic novel, and "Klimt, the biopic of Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, starring John Malkovich and "Genealogies of the Crime," that was nommed for any Golden Bear in Berlin.Ruiz was feted at Berlin having a Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution in 1997. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com