background
main page
Action
user_icon

Of Great Events and Ordinary People

1980

favorite
favorite
Of Great Events and Ordinary People
INA

Description:

Headquarters:

Homepage:

Country:

Genre: Documentary

Awards:

Runtime: 65 min

Average vote: 7

Release date: 1980-02-24

Production Countries: FR

Director: Raúl Ruiz

Writer: François Ede

Writer: Raúl Ruiz

Plot:

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.

Cast:

Images

Crew:

top