Nicolas Cage’s The Surfer was met with a six-minute standing ovation when it wrapped up the midnight premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday night.
The movie star was beaming from ear to ear and waving across the room as cheers echoed. He then took the mic and asked how to say ‘eat the rat’ in French (from the film) causing more delight from viewers.
The Surfer, directed by Lorcan Finnegan, stars Nicolas Cage in the trippy psychological thriller.
Cage portrays a man who “returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his on, but is humiliated by a group of powerful locals and drawn into a conflict that rises with the punishing heat oft he summer and pushes him right to his breaking point”.
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Other stars on the bill include Nicholas Cassim, Julian McMahon, Justin Rosniak, Alexander Bertrand, Finn Little, Rahel Romahn and Charlotte Maggi.
The Oscar-winning star has received adoration at the festival before, for David Lynch’s 1990 romantic crime drama, Wild at Heart. The film won the prestigious Palme d’Or.
Although the celebrity did hint last year he has plans to retire after a ‘few more movies’, he is still one of the hardest working stars in Hollywood.
He currently has Longlegs – horror – and a Western, The Gunslingers, upcoming.
Instead of the silver screen with the likes of The Surfer for Nicolas Cage, he says he wants to focus more on TV. The actor is set to return to the Spider-Man Noir role.
Reviews for Nicolas Cage’ The Surfer have poured in from the festival, with one viewer saying it was the ‘most fun’ they’ve had so far.
It’s caused fans to become “hyped to see it” and send their support to the star.
One wrote: “Cagey doing wonders as always”.
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