Raymond Depardon Movies

Utilizing a combination of professional actors and man-on-the-street interviews, French director Raymond Depardon has created a film about filmmaking...

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

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...

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

Contre l'Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea...

An almost blind writer moves to a hidden property in an Alpine village with a female friend, Renata. The two play sado-masochistic games including...

The film allows mathematicians involved in the creation of the exhibition to express themselves in their own words and includes Sir Michael Atiyah,...

Loosely based on Diégo Brosset’s novel, set in the Sahara at the beginning of the twentieth century. A man of the desert is adopted by...

Film about writer Malraux, with photographs portraying great moments of his life and accompanied by his most famous speeches.

Using a rostrum camera, Raymond Depardon films a long series of photos, from the narrow streets of Paris to the endless desert, accompanied by...

Second documentary of a trilogy produced on the long term (together with Profils paysans: l'approche (2001) and Profils paysans: La vie moderne...

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

A fortuitous meeting, late one afternoon, in the garden of the Tuileries, of one or two cameras, a tape recorder, and three cameramen/directors,...

This documentary follows the daily life of a section of the police station of the fifth "arrondissement" (district) of Paris.

Miscellaneous images of African life.