Eleanor the Great may not always live up to the hyperbole of the title, but it’s still worth admiring. Johansson, herself a fairly spectacular performer, elicits warm and complex performances ...

Her feature directorial debut, “Eleanor the Great”, will have its world premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section, marking a major milestone in Johansson’s ...

“Eleanor the Great” recognizes as much, ceding its own coda to a first-person account. Audiences in Cannes walked out knowing little more about Johansson’s directorial voice – but they ...

‘Eleanor The Great’ Review: June Squibb Is Quietly Powerful And Touching As A 94-Year-Old Woman Caught Up In A Lie In Scarlett Johansson’s Impressive Directorial Debut – Cannes Film Festival ...

The script of “Eleanor the Great,” by Tory Kamen, doesn’t stint on the sitcom sarcasm, and that’s both a plus and a minus.

Home Film News Scarlett Johansson’s ‘Eleanor The Great’ Starring June Squibb Draws Six-Minute Ovation At Cannes By Antonia Blyth, Nancy Tartaglione May 20, 2025 6:58am 2 Comments ...

I’m genuinely really open to any project to come through. “Eleanor the Great” and “28 Years Later” are so different from each other, and I really enjoyed the complexities that were in both.

Logline: In Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut Eleanor The Great, June Squibb brings to vivid life the witty and proudly troublesome 94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein, who after a devastating ...

CANNES, France — Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut, “Eleanor the Great,” stars June Squibb as a 94-year-old woman who, out of grief and loneliness, does a terrible thing.

The 95-year-old June Squibb is at the festival as the lead in ‘Eleanor the Great,’ Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut.

The film follows Eleanor, who, after spending seventy years with her best friend, moves to New York City for a fresh start. Finding it difficult to make friends at ninety - and longing for ...