Reporters

This award-winning documentary takes a humorous look at the work of French photojournalists, who stalk their prey with the dedication of the hunter and whose trophies are the stuff of the popular newspapers. Director/photographer Raymond Depardon founded the Gamma Photo Agency in Paris, and has covered headline-making news around the world. In Reporters, he follows several Gamma photographers on their professional rounds. He captures the photographers capturing such notables as Francois Mitterand, Giscard d'Estaing, Catherine Deneuve, Christina Onassis, Richard Gere and Jean-Luc Godard. "In addition to being an admirable reportage, it's also a very funny film about the public comportment of public figures: including those who court publicity and those who shun it" (Variety). The photographers also get assigned to major news events, such as synagogue bombings in Paris or wars in Lebanon, but what is deemed newsworthy--Richard Gere's sunglasses, Christina Onassis' trip to the gynecologist, Godard's gibberish--is the final irony of this sympathetic look at some long-suffering reporters.

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