In Cannes, ruminations on the past; musings on the present

The directors Wong Kar Wai in "Ashes of Time Redux" and Terence Davies in "Of Time and the City" habit the past times times for inspiration. Raymond Depardon's "Modern font Life" is a infotainment film on rural life and mill farm in French Republic. Matteo Garrone's "Gomorrha" traces the malignant extent of the Camorra in Naples.