Re-cycle of Life (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
There have been general grumblings in the photo community that this year's Arles photo festival will be the one to miss. After guest curator Raymond Depardon and before that Martin Parr, people felt that handing things over to a fashion designer was inappropriate, even if Christian Lacr...
SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 26/05/2008
In chronological order: James Toback’s Tyson Indiana Jones premiere, and Everything is Fine In the market: Uwe Boll goes to Vietnam How to throw a renegade karaoke party in Cannes In the market: Sex and Breakfast Raymond Depardon's La Vie Moderne James Gray's Two Lovers Che distribution speculation, and the French Forrest Gump Pre-Che jitters Post-Che fallout Olivier Assayas’ Summer Hours and Terrence...
FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
La Vie Moderne , playing here on the Un Certain Regard sidebar, is the third documentary portrait of a group of rural French dairy farmers that Raymond Depardon has made this decade, and as such, comparisons between Depardon's overall project and Michael Apted ’s 7 Up series are not unapt. But where Apted's seven films across forty years have come to define a changing Britain through the personal...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
The directors Wong Kar Wai in "Ashes of Time Redux" and Terence Davies in "Of Time and the City" use the past for inspiration. Raymond Depardon's "Modern Life" is a documentary on rural life and agriculture in France. Matteo Garrone's "Gomorrah" traces the malignant extent of the Camorra in Naples.
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
"Modern Life is the name of a lovely new documentary by the French director Raymond Depardon, and the title, like the film itself, carries a gentle but unmistakable irony," writes AO Scott in the New York Times. "Mr Depardon's subjects...
