Of Great Events and Ordinary People
1980, French. Directed by Raúl Ruiz.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 5m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- French
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- Released
- 24 February 1980
- Original title
- De grands événements et des gens ordinaires
- Country
- France
- Written by
- François Ede, Raúl Ruiz
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Of Great Events and Ordinary People (1980) was directed by Raúl Ruiz.