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.