One of the hottest tickets at this year’s Cannes International Film Festival was for Abel Ferrara’s “Welcome to New York” starring Gerard Depardieu as a thinly-veiled version of the French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn. But perhaps the most interesting thing about the film is the actor Depardieu himself.One of the hottest tickets at this year’s Cannes International Film Festival was for Abel Ferrara’s “Welcome to New York” starring Gerard Depardieu as a thinly-veiled version of the French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn. But perhaps the most interesting thing about the film is the actor Depardieu himself.