Making his Cannes Film Festival Competition debut, Ari Aster unveiled 'Eddington' in Cannes this evening, drawing a nearly seven-minute ovation.

"Eddington," the new film from "Hereditary" director Ari Aster, may be the most political film at the Cannes Film Festival, but at a press conference for the movie, the cast refused to address questions regarding its controversial subject matter - dodging even the most direct inquiries,

"Eddington," Ari Aster's modern Western starring Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Austin Butler and Pedro Pascal, earned a standing ovation at Cannes.