Squibb stars as a widow struggling with the loss of her best friend in Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut "Eleanor the Great."

Squibb has become the female Alan Arkin. She's 95 years old, but onscreen she delivers her zingers with the crack timing of an old person whose perception of the world is ageless in its bombs-away, truth-telling joy.

Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut at Cannes, “Eleanor the Great,” stars June Squibb as a 94-year-old woman who, out of grief and loneliness, does a terrible thing.