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Bookmark this pageReporters (1981)
Director: Raymond Depardon
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From Time Out Film Guide
A day-by-day account of events covered by photo-journalists from Depardon's own Gamma agency during October 1980. The journos are all male, all youngish and, unstereotypically, not pickled in cynicism and self-loathing. But give them time, you feel, as they turn up to play their assigned roles in the coverage of the hackneyed state ceremonials, celebrity press conferences and cheesy photo-ops for dodgy politicians. Even more dismal and ignominious are the stalkings and stakeouts (of Princess Caroline, Philippe De Gaulle). Without knowing what was left out, it's rash to compliment Depardon on his 'objectivity', but his film comes across as an accurate-seeming job description that is unlikely to stir journalistic ambition in many viewers' breasts.Author: BBa
Cast & crew
Director: Raymond Depardon
Producer: Raymond Depardon
Cast: reporters Francis Apesteguy, Marc Bulka, François Lehr, Vaclav Neumann, Coluche, Richard Gere, Jean-Luc Godard, Gene Kelly, Mireille Mathieu, François Mitterrand, Michel Rocard, Patrick Siccoli, Jacques Chirac full cast
Genre(s): Documentaries
Duration: 100 mins
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