Cannes Celebrates James Gray's Paper Tiger With 10-Minute Ovation
TL;DR
James Gray's sixth Cannes premiere, Paper Tiger, earned a 10-minute standing ovation at the Grand Theatre Lumiere. Cate Blanchett and Julianne Moore joined the applause as Gray, visibly moved, thanked the crowd for cinema’s vitality. NEON has US rights; the film stars Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver and Miles Teller and follows two brothers pursuing the American Dream while getting drawn into a dangerous Russian mafia plot. The premiere adds to Gray's Cannes legacy, though he has yet to win the festival.
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