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,

Scarlett Johansson has made a major splash in Cannes with her feature directorial debut “Eleanor the Great.” Competing in the Un Certain Regard competition, the film - starring June Squibb, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Erin Kellyman - earned Johansson and her cast a five-minute standing ovation on Tuesday.

Scarlett Johansson embraced seamless summertime style with her attire for the premiere of “Eleanor the Great” during the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday. The film, starring June Squibb, marks the two-time Oscar-nominated actress’ directorial debut.

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.

Anonymously directed by one of the most famous people in the world, "Eleanor the Great" is the near-opposite of auteur fare. Filmmaker Scarlett Johansson wouldn't have it any other way - channeling her fame and star power into an uneven if moving drama about historical transmission that stresses the importance of sharing other people's stories.

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 made her directorial debut at the Cannes Film Festival with Eleanor the Great, starring June Squibb in the lead role.

In her directorial debut Eleanor the Great, Scarlett Johansson tries to shape a portrait of aging, loneliness and grief in America through the misadventures of her eponymous protagonist, played by the reliably funny June Squibb (Thelma).