Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye
- IMDb link: 0369523
- IMDb rating: 7.3 (365 votes) Search
- Genres: Biography, Documentary
- Director: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Heinz Bütler
- Cast: Alexander Brooks, Robert Delpire and others
- Release date: 12 Jul 2007
- Release year: 2003
- Runtime: 72 minutes
- Country: Switzerland
- Keywords: travel, photograph, mexico, incarceration, camera, photographer, prostitute, world war two, worker, view
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Artist Henri Cartier-Bresson comments on several of his photographs. One of the last films shot with the photographer, also featuring Robert Delpire, Elliott Erwitt, Isabelle Huppert, Josef Koudelka, Arthur Miller, and Ferdinando Scianna.
Heinz Butler interviews Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) late in life. Cartier-Bresson pulls out photographs, comments briefly, and holds them up to Butler's camera. A few others share observations, including Isabelle Huppert, Arthur Miller, and Josef Koudelka. Cartier-Bresson talks about his travels, including Mexico in the 1930s, imprisonment during World War II, being with Gandhi moments before his assassination, and returning to sketching late in life. He shows us examples. He talks about becoming and being a photographer, about composition, and about some of his secrets to capture the moment.
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