Of Great Events and Ordinary People
19801h 5m7.5
Documentary
- Runtime
- 1h 5m
- Genre
- Documentary
- Origin
- France
About
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.
Where to watch
Not available to stream in United States yet. It is in France.
Details
- Director
- Raúl Ruiz
- Writing
- François Ede, Raúl Ruiz
- Status
- Released
- Released
- Feb 24, 1980
- Studio
- INA
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