DiCaprio film gets nine-minute standing ovation: ‘Best performance yet’

Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese — Hollywood royalty is back together and may have the film of the year.

Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon received a nine-minute standing ovation at Cannes Film Festival. Pictures: AFP

The film killed it.

Martin Scorsese’s brand-new film Killers of the Flower Moon received a nine-minute standing ovation during the movie’s world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on the weekend.

Scorsese, 80, was joined at the screening by fellow cast members Leonardo DiCaprio, 48, Robert De Niro, 79, and Lily Gladstone, 36.

The nearly three-and-a-half-hour film — which was adapted from David Grann’s book of the same name — is set in Oklahoma during the 1920s and depicts the serial murders of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, which was later dubbed the Reign of Terror and led to the formation of the FBI.

“It’s taken its time to come around, but Apple did so great by us, shooting out there … there was lots of grass — I’m a New Yorker,” said the Goodfellas director in a post-film speech. “We also lived in that world with the Osage, we really did, and we really miss it.”

Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio.

One early review of the film called it “Leonardo DiCaprio’s best performance yet”. (Photo by Patricia DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP)

The Wolf of Wall Street director also thanked the crowd saying: “I don’t think I’ve ever experienced [anything] like this.”

One early review of the film called it “Leonardo DiCaprio’s best performance yet”.

“The dignity and care for the Osage perspective was genuine and honest throughout the process and the Osage responded with the kind of passion and enthusiasm that met this historic moment,” praised former Osage tribal leader Jim Gray.

An untouchable duo. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP)

Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro and Cara Jade Myers attend the screening.

“For those of us who were watching from the sidelines while our best and brightest among us auditioned, sewed, catered, painted, acted and advised the filmmakers, it’s going to be hard not to feel our presence in helping to tell.”

Scorsese’s film was not the only movie to make it into the headlines.

The nearly three and half-hour film is set in Oklahoma during the 1920s and depicts the serial murders of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, which was later dubbed the Reign of Terror and led to the formation of the FBI. Picture: Paramount Pictures

Harrison Ford’s digitally de-aged face made a long-awaited appearance during the world premiere of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

Former Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp also made an appearance to promote his brand-new film Jeanne Du Barry and received a seven-minute standing ovation due to his portrayal of King Louis XV.

In a press conference for the film, Depp slammed Tinseltown saying the industry “boycotted” him during his defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard.

Killers of the Flower Moon is set to be released in October.

This article was originally published by the New York Post and reproduced with permission

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