CANNES WATCH: Director not fazed by Cannes snub

CANNES, France (AP) — Abel Ferrara’s “Welcome to New York” seemed like a natural for the Cannes Film Festival: It stars one of France’s most respected actors and it’s loosely based one of the country’s biggest recent scandals.

But the Gerard Depardieu film, inspired by the Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s saga, isn’t competing here. Its director says that doesn’t matter, since Cannes crowds were able to see it anyway.