Raymond Depardon (Director)

Reviews of movies from director Raymond Depardon

Looking for reviews of films directed by Raymond Depardon? Cinafilm has a total of 56 reviews across 4 movies directed by Raymond Depardon.

Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 72%.

The 10th District Court: Moments of Trial is Raymond Depardon's highest rated movie, with a score of 81% based on 6 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Raymond Depardon is New York, N.Y., with a score of 66% based on 1 reviews.

Director Biography

Depardon is for the most part a self-taught photographer, as he began taking pictures on his family's farm when he was 12. He apprenticed with a photographer-optician in Villefranche-sur-Saône before he moved to Paris in 1958.[1] He began his career as a photojournalist in the early 1960s. He travelled to conflict zones including Algeria, Vietnam, Biafra and Chad. In 1966, Depardon co-founded the photojournalism agency Gamma, and he became its director in 1974. In 1973 he became Gamma’s director. From 1975 to 1977 Depardon traveled in Chad and received a Pulitzer Prize in 1977. The next year he left Gamma to become a Magnum associate, then a full member in 1979. In the 1990s, Depardon went back to his parents’ farm to photograph rural landscapes in color, and then in 1996 published a black-and-white road journal, In Africa.

Raymond Depardon has directed films starring Liam Neeson, Alan Rickman, Spike Lee and Isabelle Huppert.

Raymond Depardon has collaborated with these film directors: Spike Lee, Zhang Yimou, David Lynch and Wim Wenders.