Scarlett Johansson: "Robert Redford made me want to direct"

A hair-raising mistral blows across Cédric Klapisch's Croisette. The director and crew of The Coming of the Future are giving interviews on the windswept terrace of the Marriott Hotel. Scarlett Johansson is getting a different kind of treatment. The Hollywood star is sitting comfortably sheltered and warm, overlooking the sea. The actress is in Cannes for Eleanor the Great , her directorial debut, presented in the official selection (Un Certain Regard). A film that evokes the 1990s, when American cinema produced more than just superhero movies.

An actress's film (nothing to do with Kristen Stewart 's fussy The Chronology of Water ) because they exude the love of the actors, all excellent, from a very good script. The story of Eleanor Morgenstein (June Squibb, brilliant), a 94-year-old widow without a filter, living in Florida, who returns to New York after the death of her best friend and roommate, a Jewish survivor of the death camps...