CANNES – Australian actress Cate Blanchett, fresh off her Oscar-nominated performance in Tar, stars as an eccentric nun at a monastery in 1940s Australia that takes in an indigenous boy with intriguing powers in The New Boy, which premiered at the Cannes Film...
CANNES – Australian actress Cate Blanchett, fresh off her Oscar-nominated performance in Tar, stars as an eccentric nun at a monastery in 1940s Australia that takes in an indigenous boy with intriguing powers in The New Boy, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
“That’s a genesis for a great movie,” Thornton told Reuters on Saturday, before joking: “You know, written by child and directed by a grumpy old man is probably how it worked.”
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