That someone would appropriate their best friend's saga of survival is clearly an indefensible action. Yet in a strange way I think that "Eleanor the Great," to be true to the audacity of that premise,

Scarlett Johansson's Eleanor the Great had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival today, where it received a six-minute ovation. She said afterward that her film is “very timely.” Playing in the Un Certain Regard strand,

Cannes: Yes, the film is about a brassy older woman bonding with a chipper young college student, but there's something darker and deeper at play. The result? An ambitious, if often baffling emotional dramedy.