Oscar winner Jodie Foster embraced director Rebecca Zlotowski at the Cannes Film Fest on Tuesday night as Vie Privée scored eight-minute standing ovation.

The crowd cheered wildly for Foster even as the actress kept gesturing towards Zlotowski.

“Vie Privée” is an off-beat mystery about a psychotherapist who becomes convinced that her patient’s suicide was actually a murder.

The crowd for the film was certainly star-studded, a sign of the esteem in which Foster is held. Gael García Bernal and Alejandro González Iñárritu posed for pictures before the screening, while Scarlett Johansson strode the red-carpet husband Colin Jost (SNL).

Johansson was accompanied by June Squibb, the 95-year-old star of her feature directorial debut, “Eleanor the Great.” Adrien Brody, who has just won a second Best Actor Oscar for The Brutalist, also attended.

“I’ve been wanting to go back and do a French movie, because I haven’t done one in a long time,” Foster said. “For me, it’s always about trying to find the right piece of material. I didn’t want to do some overblown American and French co-production. As an actor, I need a story. And a lot of French movies, which I love, are behavior films where you just sort of follow people around for days. That’s not what I do. I’m interested in narrative, I’m all about developing a character who propels the story. This ticked all the boxes.”

Several of her films have also premiered at the festival, including “Taxi Driver,” which won the Palme d’or in 1976, as well as 2016’s “Money Monster,” a thriller with George Clooney and Julia Roberts, and 2011’s Mel Gibson drama “The Beaver,” both of which she directed.

Foster speaks French fluently, having attended the Lycée Français de Los Angeles while growing up.

Foster said: “I’m not really interested in acting just for the sake of acting. It has to really speak to me.”