This original 1983 French movie poster was created for Faits Divers, the gripping documentary film by celebrated photojournalist and filmmaker Raymond Depardon. Premiering as an official selection at the Cannes Film Festival, the film offers an unflinching, cinéma vérité look inside a Paris police station, capturing the raw human drama of daily criminal cases—assaults, suicides, domestic disputes—through Depardon’s signature observational lens.
The poster’s bold, grainy aesthetic perfectly mirrors the film’s gritty realism. A cropped, blurred photo—likely a still from the film—occupies the frame, emphasizing tension and immediacy. The typography slices diagonally across the composition in stark white, red, blue, green, and pink text, contrasting sharply with the darkened image. The title Faits Divers ("Miscellaneous News Items") appears in loud capital letters at the top, divided into pink and green to echo the tension between the mundane and the dramatic.
Produced by Antenne 2 and Copyright Films and distributed by Pari Films, Faits Divers remains one of Depardon’s most influential works—straddling the line between investigative journalism and humanist cinema. This original poster not only promotes the film but also encapsulates the visual language of early 1980s French documentary design: raw, urgent, and minimalist. A powerful piece for collectors of film ephemera, contemporary French cinema, or documentary history.
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Printed by Lalande Courbet in Wissous
Good condition, creases, small tears
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