Robert de Niro couldn’t help but compare his character to Donald Trump. LOIC VENANCE / AFP
During the press conference of the film out of competition of the director of Taxi Driverhis favorite actor went there with his caustic spirit.
It will have been necessary to be patient to attend the press conference of the film Killers of the Flower Moonby Martin Scorsese, one of the most anticipated films this year on the Croisette, presented Out of competition.
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Nearly two hours before the arrival of Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Leonardo Di Caprio and Chief Standing Bear, the Palais des Festivals press conference room was already packed with journalists from around the world. entire. White-hot with expectation, the media had only one desire: to be able to ask questions of the film crew, which received a standing ovation of more than nine minutes during its official presentation the day before, after a climb historic steps on the red carpet.
Adapted from a book by journalist-novelist David Grann, released in 2017, Killers of the Flower Moon depicts in the 1920s the investigation led by the FBI into the numerous murders having affected the rich American Indian tribe of the Osages in Oklahoma, having…