Raymond Depardon

Urgences

Raymond Depardon

A documentary filmed in the psychiatric ward of the Motel Dieu at a large hospital in Paris. The patients arrive on their own, or with considerable help from the police, but all of them are in need of medical attention.

Délits flagrants

Raymond Depardon

Michèle Bernard-Requin

This documentary is a collection of footage of 14 suspects being 'interviewed' by the deputy public prosecutors.

San Clemente

Sophie Ristelhueber, Raymond Depardon

This documentary is about the life of a Venetian psychiatric hospital. The relationships between the doctors, the patients and their families are followed.

Muriel Leferle

Raymond Depardon

Muriel Leferle is 22-years-old, a convicted felon, HIV-positive, and can talk her way out of nearly anything. Filmmaker Raymond Depardon first encountered Leferle while shooting his documentary Delits Flagrants/Caught In The Act, about criminals dealing with the judicial system, and eventually decided her story was too good to limit to the 20 minutes of screen time she won in that picture. Muriel Leferle tells her hair-raising life story in greater scope than in the earlier film (both the truth and the version she gives to the judge); despite an unrepentant attitude about her life of crime, Leferle comes off as oddly likable, with street smarts and spunk to spare.

10e chambre - Instants d'audience

Raymond Depardon

Michèle Bernard-Requin

The proceedings of a Paris courtroom are the grist for this documentary. Drawn from over 200 appearances before the same female judge, the director chooses a dozen or so varied misdemeanor and civil hearings to highlight the subtle details of human behavior. In the process he draws attention to issues of guilt, innocence, policing and ethnicity in France.

Les années déclic

Raymond Depardon

This documentary is an autobiography based on director Depardon's voice, his face and pictures from his childhood which are all mixed together on screen and contrasted with selected pictures he shot between 1957 and 1977 and now comments on.

Profils paysans, chapitre 3 : La vie moderne

Raymond Depardon

Paul Argaud, Marcel Challaye

For ten years, Raymond Depardon has followed the lives of farmer living in the mountain ranges. He allows us to enter their farms with astounding naturalness. This moving film speaks, with great serenity, of our roots and of the future of the people who work on the land. This the last part of Depardon's triptych "Profils paysans" about what it is like to be a farmer today in an isolated highland area in France. "La vie moderne" examines what has become of the persons he has followed for ten years, while featuring younger people who try to farm or raise cattle or poultry, come hell or high water.

Profils paysans, chapitre 2 : Le Quotidien

Raymond Depardon

Second documentary of a trilogy produced on the long term (together with Profils paysans: l'approche (2001) and Profils paysans: La vie moderne (2008)), showing the simple lives of farmers in contemporary Southern France.

Numéros zéro

Raymond Depardon

Roger Colombani, André Grassart

On the eve of the publication of the zero issue of the daily newspaper "Le Matin de Paris", we dive into the heart of an editorial staff in turmoil, directed by Claude Perdriel.

Tchad 3

Raymond Depardon

Françoise Claustre, Hissène Habré

Profils paysans, chapitre 1 : l'approche

Raymond Depardon

The first of a documentary serie about rural France

Tibesti Too

Raymond Depardon

This documentary draws a sensitive, unsensational portrait of the desert and the people who inhabit it, the Toubous.

Afriques : comment ça va avec la douleur ?

Raymond Depardon

Miscellaneous images of African life.

12 Days

Raymond Depardon

A new documentary by filmmaker-photographer Raymond Depardon – where justice and psychiatry meet.

1974, une partie de campagne

Raymond Depardon

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Charles Aznavour

Following the 1974 French presidential campaign with Valery Gicard d'Estaing

Paris

Raymond Depardon

Utilizing a combination of professional actors and man-on-the-street interviews, French director Raymond Depardon has created a film about filmmaking that centers on a rather discriminating director's search for the perfect leading lady. The main problem is that the helmer (Luc Delahaye) doesn't really know what his next film will be about, let alone what kind of woman should be his star. Looking for inspiration, the director and his casting agent (Sylvie Peyre) visit the Saint Lazare train station in Paris and shoot some footage of passengers entering and exiting the trains. Later he encounters a few actresses, but rather than asking about their professional experiences, the director focuses on their personal lives. After several fruitless interviews, the director confesses to the casting agent that he really wants to utilize a non-professional actress.