Emergencies
Raymond Depardon: Humanity in Focus
February 20 - March 4
Immersed in the psychiatric emergency room of a Paris hospital, Raymond Depardon’s engrossing documentary follows a succession of citizens in varying psychic states and the staff who do what they can to help them with their eminently modern forms of despair.
Raymond Depardon continues his portraiture of Parisian institutions with this typically engrossing immersion in one of the city’s psychiatric emergency rooms. A succession of Parisians in varying psychic states pass through the Hôtel-Dieu hospital as its staff do what they can to help these citizens with their eminently modern forms of despair. Depardon’s typically non-interventionist approach is especially sensitive to the nuances and complexities of the patient/doctor relationship (and the fundamental trust upon which it is predicated), which Depardon himself regarded as this indelible documentary’s central subject.
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