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Of Great Events and Ordinary People (1980)

February 24, 1980 (FR) Documentary • 65m

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.

Director

Raúl Ruiz

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Jacques Bouquin
Jacques Bouquin

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Alain Salomon
Alain Salomon

Director of Photography

Dominique Forgue
Dominique Forgue

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FR

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