James Gray's 'Paper Tiger' Wins 10-Minute Cannes Ovation as Director Eyes First Festival Prize
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Updated · Deadline · May 16
James Gray's 'Paper Tiger' Wins 10-Minute Cannes Ovation as Director Eyes First Festival Prize
12 articles · Updated · Deadline · May 16
Ten minutes of applause greeted Paper Tiger at its world premiere in Cannes' Grand Theatre Lumiere, with James Gray visibly moved as Cate Blanchett, Julianne Moore and Pawel Pawlikowski joined the ovation.
Gray used the moment to thank the audience for "keeping cinema alive," saying moviegoing matters more than ever and jokingly urging the crowd to clap longer by pointing to his watch.
The competition entry stars Adam Driver, Miles Teller and Scarlett Johansson in a 1986 Queens crime drama about two brothers drawn into a Russian mafia scheme; Driver and Teller attended, Johansson did not.
Paper Tiger is Gray's sixth Cannes film and follows 2022's Armageddon Time, which drew a five-minute ovation; despite multiple premieres at the festival, he has yet to win a Cannes prize.
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