The new drama about Elvis Presley’s path to popularity, directed by Moulin Rouge! creator Baz Luhrmann and starring Austin Butler premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday, May 25.
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The film received a 12-minute standing ovation, the longest of the festival thus far. Even though Elvis received great reviews at The Cannes Film Festival, some film experts are divided on whether it was a perfect success.
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Elvis, on the other hand, was described by Variety’s Owen Gleiberman as a “fizzy, delirious, impishly energised, compulsively watchable 2-hour-and-39-minute fever dream a spangly pinwheel of a movie that converts the Elvis saga we all carry around in our heads into a lavishly staged biopic-as-pop-opera.”
Whether they liked the film as a whole or not, most reviews praised Butler, 30, for his portrayal of the late music superstar. Elvis will be in theatres on June 24 2022
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