At Cannes, Michel Franco's 'chronic' Looks Death In The Face

The Mexican filmmaker's Cannes Film Festival entry "Chronic" stars Tim Roth as a homecare nurse to the dying. "When I watch a film, the minute I sense that I am being manipulated, I step back," Franco said at a Cannes hotel poolside. Variety noted that the film asks "audiences to do the heavy lifting required to arrive at a meaningful emotional response." Please don't brush your hair, take off your makeup, wear flat shoes,' said Sutherland, best known as the daughter of Julia Louis-Dreyfus' politician on the HBO comedy Veep. Roth is in almost every shot of the film, and critics have praised the British actor's intense depiction of a man who has buried layers of emotional pain. Roth was in "Reservoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction," and has just finished filming Tarantino's upcoming Western, "The Hateful Eight." The director said working in the U.S.