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.

Josh O'Connor plays a hapless art thief whose big job goes wrong in the 1970s-set thriller, which premieres in the Cannes competition on Friday.

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.