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Of Great Events and Ordinary People
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- Documentary
Overview
In 1978, Ruiz was commissioned to make a television documentary about the French elections from the viewpoint of a Chilean exile in Paris’ eleventh arrondissement. But, contrary to the producers’ expectation, the Left lost. Ruiz seized on this anti-climax to make a documentary about nothing except itself – a film whose central subject is forever lost in digression and ‘dispersal’, harking back to his Chilean experiments of the ‘60s. Its political content is deliberately left negligible: it’s hard to tell at the end who did actually win the election, let alone why.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 24, 1980
- Original language
- French
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- France
- Director
- Raúl Ruiz
- Writer
- François Ede,Raúl Ruiz
- Cinematography
- Jacques Bouquin,Alain Salomon,Dominique Forgue
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0079032