Matthew McConaughey Boo, Matthew McConaughey's latest movie bombed at the Cannes Film Festival, but the laid-back Texan said he was all right with it.
"Sea of Trees," directed by Gus Van Sant and co-starring Naomi Watts and Ken Watanabe, drew boos and hisses at its premiere Friday.
Cannes audiences are notoriously unabashed about jeering films that fall flat.
Several reports said "Sea of Trees" was the first high-profile picture to garner big boos at the festival, which opened Wednesday and closes Sunday.
The Oscar winner defended his detractors at a press conference later.
"Anyone has as much right to boo as they do to ovate," McConaughey said, according to the Irish Independent.
"I'm happy to be here. I like the film. It was a happy day to hear that it had got in," he said.It's exciting to come support work that I got to do with these people. This is fun, this is dessert, no matter what. We've declared now, thanks for having us. We enjoyed it."
In the movie, Van Sant's first since his 2012 fracking drama "Promised Land," McConaughey plays a suicidal math professor who treks to a park in Japan famous for visitors who want to kill themselves.
While there, he encounters a suicidal Japanese man, played by Watanabe.
In a Cannes roundup, a Daily News reviewer said the film started out moody, but eventually collapsed into cliché.
At the press conference after the film, the bushy-bearded actor said the story was about using "isolation to get to salvation, how facing death helps you find life."
Watts also apparently remained unruffled by the negative reaction, calling the film "a beautiful love story that was painful and tragic," according to The Independent.
Van Sant won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, in 2003 for the movie "Elephant," which was partly based on the Columbine high school massacre.
"Sea of Trees," directed by Gus Van Sant and co-starring Naomi Watts and Ken Watanabe, drew boos and hisses at its premiere Friday.
Cannes audiences are notoriously unabashed about jeering films that fall flat.
Several reports said "Sea of Trees" was the first high-profile picture to garner big boos at the festival, which opened Wednesday and closes Sunday.
The Oscar winner defended his detractors at a press conference later.
"Anyone has as much right to boo as they do to ovate," McConaughey said, according to the Irish Independent.
"I'm happy to be here. I like the film. It was a happy day to hear that it had got in," he said.It's exciting to come support work that I got to do with these people. This is fun, this is dessert, no matter what. We've declared now, thanks for having us. We enjoyed it."
In the movie, Van Sant's first since his 2012 fracking drama "Promised Land," McConaughey plays a suicidal math professor who treks to a park in Japan famous for visitors who want to kill themselves.
While there, he encounters a suicidal Japanese man, played by Watanabe.
In a Cannes roundup, a Daily News reviewer said the film started out moody, but eventually collapsed into cliché.
At the press conference after the film, the bushy-bearded actor said the story was about using "isolation to get to salvation, how facing death helps you find life."
Watts also apparently remained unruffled by the negative reaction, calling the film "a beautiful love story that was painful and tragic," according to The Independent.
Van Sant won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, in 2003 for the movie "Elephant," which was partly based on the Columbine high school massacre.
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