Depardon brings country life to Cannes

May 17, 2008 Six years after country school portrait "Etre et Avoir" wowed Cannes audiences, veteran agency photographer and documentarian Raymond Depardon is bringing another slice of French rural life to the Croisette. Un Certain Regard entry "La Vie Moderne" (Modern Life) is the last part in a tryptch of films on peasant life that Depardon has shot over the past decade. The subject sees Depardon, co-counder of the Gamma agency, go back to the roots he walked away from when he left home to find fame as a photographer.

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