Josh O’Connor heaped praise on his “The Mastermind” director Kelly Reichardt during the film’s Cannes press conference on Saturday, saying “there’s a kindness” to working with her “which you don’t often get.

Alana Haim, Bill Camp and Hope Davis also feature in this early ‘70s-set story of an out-of-work carpenter who pulls off a major art theft without thinking it through.

Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind can be described as a heist-gone-wrong, but it is not as interested in the act of stealing itself, as it is in the robber.