Making his Cannes Film Festival Competition debut, Ari Aster unveiled 'Eddington' in Cannes this evening, drawing a nearly seven-minute ovation.

Joaquin Phoenix was overcome with emotion when his new movie Eddington - a Covid-era western - received a standing ovation at Cannes

When the local sheriff, Joe ( Joaquin Phoenix ), decides to run against the town’s smoothie mayor, Ted ( Pedro Pascal ), it seems that maybe Aster is headed toward an allegory for the 2020 presidential election—or our two-party system more broadly.