The Beloved' from Rodrigo Sorogoyen marks Javier Bardem's fourth film in competition in Cannes and sixth to premiere at the festival

Rodrigo Sorogoyen's industry drama comes very soon after "Sentimental Value," bringing many of the same themes to the story of an oppressive filmmaker who casts his estranged daughter in his comeback movie.

Spain's Rodrigo Sorogoyen has proven himself a master of the psychological thriller, whether the serial-killer kind (May God Save Us, 2016) the political kind (The Realm, 2018) or the true-crime kind (The Beasts,

Rodrigo Sorogoyen's "The Beloved" ("El ser querido"), which world premieres in Cannes competition on May 16, begins in a plush Madrid restaurant. The scene lasts 20 minutes. In it, a world-famous film director,

Let’s get the somewhat silly, broadly true yet also ultimately surface-level point of comparison out of the way first: if “Sentimental Value” had a chaotic evil twin, it would be Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s fraught family drama and meta film production parable mashup “The Beloved.

El Ser Querido (The Beloved) starring Oscar winner Javier Bardem got a rousing ovation in at its Cannes premiere. Applause in the Grand Theatre Lumiere for the film went on for seven minutes. Bardem hugged his castmates and director after the screening.

Cannes regular Javier Bardem was the toast of the Palais on Saturday as “The Beloved” had its world premiere in competition and received a 7-minute ovation. A beaming Bardem went up and down the line of the film's cast,

Javier Bardem is in Cannes for the debut of Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s The Beloved, a psychological drama about an Oscar-winning director named Esteban Martinez trying to reconnect with his actress daughter