Film
Of Great Events and Ordinary People
1980 · 1h 5m · Documentary
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- 7.4
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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.
Crew
- Raúl RuizDirector · Writer
- François EdeWriter
- Jacques BouquinDirector of Photography
- Dominique ForgueDirector of Photography
- Alain SalomonDirector of Photography
- Valeria SarmientoEditor
Details
- Release date
- February 24, 1980
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- French
- Runtime
- 1h 5m
- Genres
- Documentary
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