Gillian Andersons Slasher Gets Six-Minute Ovation at Cannes

's wacky slasher Teenage Sex and Death At Camp Miasma earned a rousing reception at the , as the film earned a six-minute standing ovation.

The X Files star, 57, plays a reclusive actress in the film, and her performance had been lauded as 'grotesque' by director Jane Schoenbrun.

Following the screening, footage showed the audience's positive reaction as Gillian embraced director Jane.

The actress arrived on the Cannes red carpet in an elegant pink satin dress, where she posed for snaps with co-star Hannah Einbinder.

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma stars Hannah Einbinder as a filmmaker tasked with remaking a cult slasher film.

In the process she becomes obsessed with the idea of casting the original picture's 'final girl,' played by Gillian, sparking a frenzy of psychosexual mania.

Jane, who came out as in 2020, had previously spoken about the challenges they've faced getting the film made, with indies Plan B and Mubi eventually offering financial backing.

They told The Hollywood Reporter: 'When I look around in our 'post-woke, post-Biden' era, I don't see any other trans artists getting budgets, and that's a f*****g shame.

'I shouldn't be the only one who's making movies at this level of budget.' They fully expect to prove those finance doubters wrong: 'I think this movie will be a hit.' 

The film is set to open the Un Certain Regard programme at this year's Cannes ahead of a release in cinemas on August 7.

Jane also lauded Gillian's 'grotesque' performance as the reclusive actress who takes centre stage.

They said: 'It almost feels like she's like Jim Carrey in certain moments. It's so funny and strange and a little bit grotesque and a little bit sad — so far from our traditional notions of high-fem sexuality, while also still being incredibly sexy and weird.'

This year's Cannes Film Festival jury consists of Demi Moore, alongside Hamnet director Chloé Zhao and actor Stellan Skarsgård.

Organisers unveiled the nine-member jury that will deliberate on the films in competition at the annual French Riviera festival in May.

As previously announced, South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook is president of the jury.

Along with him, Moore, Zhao and Skarsgård, the jurors are: Irish-Ethiopian actor Ruth Negga, Belgian director and screenwriter Laura Wandel, Chilean director and screenwriter Diego Céspedes, Ivorian American actor Isaach De Bankolé and Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty.

Speaking to the Daily Mail at the opening press conference, Demi said she felt 'tremendously honoured to be here'.

'It's such a beautiful experience and one just to be surrounded by cinema and the love of cinema, and the joy of diving in and being surrounded by those who share that is just – I just felt like a joy.'

'And who can complain about the beautiful view of this incredible place? But yes, I just feel tremendously honoured and I'm super excited. I really – I feel like a little kid getting to play a grown-up.

'You know, prior I had only ever attended the Cannes Film Festival once, and that was only as someone's plus one. And so to be sitting here today, I am really, really tremendously honoured.'

Demi also gave her thoughts on AI in the movie industry, insisting we should embrace new technology.

'I always feel that againstness breeds againstness. AI is here, and so to fight it is a battle that we will lose.

'So to find ways in which we can work with it, I think is a more valuable path to take.

'The truth is, there really isn't anything to fear because what it can never replace is what true art comes from, which is not the physical.

'It comes from the soul. It comes from the spirit of each and every one of us sitting here, to each and every one of us that creates every day.'