Journal de France Foreign Trailer (2012)

Foreign trailer for Journal de France.

Journal de France follows the septuagenarian as he travels and photographs his native land, interspersing contemporary footage with career-spanning clips from his four-decade-plus body of work. That oeuvre traverses both war zones and celebrity reportage, margins and centres. Depardon, considered the quintessential dashing photojournalist in France also has a rich career as an important filmmaker and as a documentarian in general. His intriguing subjects have ranged from the mercenary battlegrounds of late 1960s Biafra to the world of early 1980s paparazzi--as in 1981’s Reporters, which saw Depardon turn the lenses on the cynical shutter-hacks of Gamma, the photo agency he co-founded in 1966.