Of Great Events and Ordinary People
Film198065 min7.5/10 on TMDB
No community ratings yet on FilmStash · 0 membersOne score per member · Verified member ratings
Directed by Raúl Ruiz
The story
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 & crew
Cast information isn’t available yet.
Explore the crew
- Writer
- François Ede
- Director
- Raúl Ruiz
- Writer
- Raúl Ruiz
- Editor
- Valeria Sarmiento
- Director of Photography
- Jacques Bouquin
- Director of Photography
- Alain Salomon
- Director of Photography
- Dominique Forgue