{"id":5406,"date":"2023-05-21T22:44:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T17:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=5406"},"modified":"2023-05-21T22:44:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T17:44:26","slug":"dicaprio-and-scorsese-score-raves-at-star-packed-cannes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/world\/dicaprio-and-scorsese-score-raves-at-star-packed-cannes\/","title":{"rendered":"DiCaprio and Scorsese score raves at star-packed Cannes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cannes, France, May 21: Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese were set for a victory lap at Cannes on Sunday after their Native American crime epic, &#8220;Killers of the Flower Moon&#8221; scored rave reviews, while the festival prepared to bow down before Jude Law as King Henry VIII.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scorsese&#8217;s latest opus, about a wave of murders among oil-rich Osage Indians in the 1920s, was showered in words like &#8220;searing&#8221;, &#8220;triumph&#8221; and &#8220;masterpiece&#8221; by critics who scored the Cannes Film Festival&#8217;s hottest ticket on Saturday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on a non-fiction bestseller, the film sees DiCaprio as a weak-willed man who marries a wealthy Osage woman and is drawn into the deadly schemes of his kingpin uncle, played by Scorsese&#8217;s other long-time muse, Robert De Niro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IndieWire said DiCaprio gives &#8220;his best-ever performance&#8221;, while The Guardian awarded five stars for a &#8220;remarkable epic about the bloody birth of America&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The stars were due to address reporters later on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the festival was already set for another glitzy premiere later in the day, with &#8220;Firebrand&#8221; starring Jude Law as 16th-century English king Henry VIII alongside Alicia Vikander as his sixth and final wife, Catherine Parr.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cannes, France, May 21: Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese were set for a victory lap at Cannes on Sunday after their Native American crime epic, &#8220;Killers of the Flower Moon&#8221; scored rave reviews, while the festival prepared to bow down before Jude Law as King Henry VIII. Scorsese&#8217;s latest opus, about a wave of murders [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":5407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,51,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-showbiz","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}