Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye (2003) on Netflix

Plot summary

Late in life, Henri Cartier-Bresson agrees to be interviewed on camera about his work. He brings out his photographs one at a time, comments on them briefly, and holds them up for the lens. A few others share observations of their own. Cartier-Bresson speaks about his travels, among them Mexico in the 1930s, his imprisonment during World War II, and his return to drawing and sketching in his last years. He describes how he became a photographer and how he composes a frame, and he talks about some of the methods he used to catch a scene as it unfolded.