Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye
2003 · 72 MIN · IMDB 7.3 · 361 VOTES · DIR. Heinz Bütler
Overview
Heinz Bütler interviews Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) late in life. Cartier-Bresson pulls out photographs, comments briefly, and holds them up to Bütler'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.
Dialogue Timeline — 446 lines
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00:00:08 The joy of geometry - when you realize everything is right.
00:04:50 The motion of the hands and feet.
00:08:21 That is sacred music.
00:11:31 It's hard to analyze because it's beyond words and reason.
00:13:54 And he was looking at it.
00:17:07 The last eunuch. Just before the communists came.
00:20:05 Fishermen near Suzdal in Russia.
00:22:13 The moment is decisive
00:24:03 Also, she is very alive in the picture.
00:26:59 He sat opposite me.
00:29:17 And her face was hard as nail.
00:32:51 I joined Magnum and I sensed that you liked my photographs.
00:36:01 His eye makes no distinction, you can see their best on the portraits.
00:38:39 I have to destroy the rule and start from scratch again.
00:43:11 That book always kept me company on the prison camp.
00:46:20 Till there, children playing, life goes on.
00:48:31 Gandhi on his deathbed. Here as well.
00:51:49 The quality of that red.
00:55:44 he reacted most feelingly to what in America
00:57:44 I was in trouble.
01:01:17 Is to look what you've done with complete detachment.
01:04:16 To me, that makes a good photograph.
01:05:57 The young black child running, how often have I tried to take that picture again.
01:10:10 Legenda: LDT
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed446
Dialogue density6.2 lines / min
First line00:00:08
Final line01:10:10
Production Record
DirectorHeinz Bütler
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes361