Raymond Depardon

Director, Escritor, Actor, Productor

6 de julio de 1942 (83 años)
Raymond Depardon is a photographer, a journalist and a filmmaker, but, above all, his eyes view humans with compassion. He respects others and is kind with the reality of their lives. He was born into a family of farmers in 1942 in Burgundy and went to Paris in 1958, wishing to be a photographer. He was first taken on as a messenger in an agency and was sent to take photos of an opening-night at the cinema: the movie was none other than Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless. He finally established his own agency, Gamma, together with three reporters, in 1966 'not for money but for the freedom'. He suggested to set up a cinema department: 'we bought an Eclair- camera and tried to make news-films for television in addition to taking news-photograhs... It was then that I learned to hold the camera." When Depardon films people, he is silent. If one has the impression that he always keeps his eyes lowered in the face of the world's miseries, it is untrue. Raymond Depardon looks as through a lattice and reacts like quicksilver, keeping his deepest, innermost emotion secret, and allow his pictures to speak for themselves. His films are now screened in all international film festivals, from Cannes to Hong Kong.

Conocido por

  • La vida moderna
    La vida moderna2008
  • 10ª Sala: instantes de audiencias
    10ª Sala: instantes de audiencias2004
  • 12 días
    12 días2017
  • News Items
    News Items1983
  • Delitos flagrantes
    Delitos flagrantes1994
  • Journal de France
    Journal de France2012
  • A cada uno su cine (Chacun son cinéma)
    A cada uno su cine (Chacun son cinéma)2007
  • La cautiva del desierto
    La cautiva del desierto1990
  • 1974, une partie de campagne
    1974, une partie de campagne2002
  • Lumière y compañía
    Lumière y compañía1995
  • Untouched by the West
    Untouched by the West2002
  • Urgences
    Urgences1988
  • Reporters
    Reporters1981
  • Una mujer en África
    Una mujer en África1985
  • France
    France2016
  • Profils paysans : Le Quotidien
    Profils paysans : Le Quotidien2005
  • Profils paysans: l'approche
    Profils paysans: l'approche2001
  • San Clemente
    San Clemente1982
  • Africa, How Are You with Pain?
    Africa, How Are You with Pain?1996
  • Paris
    Paris1998

Filmography