Reporters

1981
6.8| 1h37m| en
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The co-founder of the Gamma press agency, Raymond Depardon, created this documentary of press photographers in Paris and their subjects by following the photographers around for one month, in October, 1980. In-between long hours waiting for a celebrity to emerge from a restaurant or a hotel, boredom immediately switches to fast action as the cameras click and roll when the person appears. The reaction to the gaggle of photographers is as varied as the people they often literally chase all around town. While some of the celebrities, such as Jacques Chirac who was mayor of Paris at the time, are perceived as comical caricatures, others are shown simply going about ordinary pursuits - including Catherine Deneuve, Gene Kelly, and Jean-Luc Godard.

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Bibliothèque publique d'information du centre Georges Pompidou

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Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.
Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.
Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.
Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
patrice vatan The surprise. Whereas one expects a small documentary " mode " and surely rather narcissistic on the world of the photojournalists, crunched by one as of their, " Reporters " the frightening mirror of a political reality suddenly exposed proves to be. Really demystificator (cf Chirac), corrodent with wish, the film shows the power of the image imparablement, its subversive capacity.