Cannes Opens with Emmanuelle Bercot's 'Standing Tall': "I'm not a minority" (TRAILER)

The Cannes Film Festival opens with a stronger-than-usual domestic drama, the second directed by a woman, actress-director Emmanuelle Bercot, who is also starring in competition film "Mon Roi," from another woman actor-director, Maiwenn ("Polisse"). Catherine Deneuve is superb as an authoritative yet empathetic judge who takes extraordinary control of the life of six-year-old Malony when his mother (Sara Forestier) dumps him in her office, one with which we become familiar over a decade. She removes any sharp objects before Malony makes a visit. Rookie actor Rod Paradot brings power and vulnerability to the role of the volatile young Malony, who loves his...

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