The premiere of indie director Ari Aster's latest film, "Eddington," attracted a particularly glitzy crowd to the Cannes Film Festival's red carpet on Friday night, with Angelina Jolie, Natalie Portman,

When the local sheriff, Joe ( Joaquin Phoenix ), decides to run against the town’s smoothie mayor, Ted ( Pedro Pascal ), it seems that maybe Aster is headed toward an allegory for the 2020 presidential election—or our two-party system more broadly.

Emma Stone and Austin Butler are also featured in this epic portrait of a country torn apart by paranoid conspiracy theories, divisive politics and pandemic insanity.