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.

Cannes: Reichardt's purest genre exercise since 2013's "Night Moves" retains her patient bent toward long, lonely takes while also delivering on a few sophisticated heisty thrills.

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.