June 1

Les Annees declic / Le Retour

Raymond Depardon, a legend of contemporary photojournalism as well as one of France's most important documentary filmmakers, has shot everyone from African rebels to presidential candidates. In Les Années déclic (The Declic Years, a pun on the sound of a camera shutter), Depardon reflects on his life and his travels, and how experiencing so much of the world through a camera lens has shaped his perception.

A rarely screened classic by one of the century's master photographers, Cartier-Bresson's Le Retour (The Return) documents the return to Germany of thousands of "displaced persons," both POWs and other kinds of detainees. Made for the American Office of War Information, the film captures both the poignancy and at times the tragedy of common people trying to make sense of their lives in a new, liberated Europe.

Les Années déclic
Raymond Depardon and Roger Ikhlef, France, 1985; 65m

Le Retour
Henri Cartier-Bresson and Lieutenant Richard Banks, US, 1944-1945; 29m