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Of Great Events and Ordinary People (1978)

Director: Raúl Ruiz

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From Time Out Film Guide

Ruiz has the gaze of an exile and a mind brimming with Cartesian wit. Detached, demanding, often scintillating, his films are conundrums without simple answers. But in Of Great Events (which starts out as a documentary on the '78 French presidential elections), Ruiz seems curiously uninterested in the documentary discourse he uses and confronts. Its meanderings are, none the less, a pleasing antidote to the moral fervour of the Griersonian documentary tradition.

Author: SH

Time Out Film Guide


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Cast & crew

Director: Raúl Ruiz

Producer: Martine Durand

Genre(s): Documentaries

Duration: 63 mins




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