Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Brings the House Down in Cannes

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that’s a Cannes Film Festival standing ovation.Martin Scorsese brought his epic “Killers of the Flower Moon” to Cannes on Saturday evening, and the crowd that filled the 3,200-seat Grand Theatre Lumiere responded pretty much the way you’d expect them to respond to an iconic director who first came to this festival with a little film called “Taxi Driver” that won the Palme d’Or a full 47 years ago.If Cannes is the palace of cinema, Scorsese is royalty who can stand alongside Fellini, Godard, Kurosawa, Bergman and a few others.

And “Killers of the Flower Moon” has the feel of a late-career opus of the first magnitude, so the Cannes audience was unreserved in its enthusiasm for him and for the extraordinary lineup of stars he brought with him, Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio for starters.If you want to put a clock on it, the ovation lasted around eight minutes, longer than the five-to-six-minute one that has become about average for Cannes.

Scorsese got the most enthusiastic reaction, of course, but the audience was also taken by Lily Gladstone, who covered her face and turned away from the camera to compose herself.

The clapping stopped only when Scorsese took the microphone and began to talk, then it started up again for another three minutes, finally ending when he walked into the lobby.