Bruce Dern Cannes Doc ‘Dernsie’ Gets 6-Minute Ovation As Laura Dern Drops In From ‘The White Lotus’ Shoot To Celebrate

Dernsie, Mike Mendez’s Bruce Dern documentary, received a six-minute opinionated ovation astatine its Cannes Film Festival premiere Wednesday night.

The Cannes Classics movie — afloat title: Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern — follows nan eponymous character arsenic he looks backmost complete his 65-year career, moving pinch specified greats arsenic John Wayne, Elia Kazan, Lee Strasberg, Alexander Payne, Alfred Hitchcock and Bette Davis. 

Laura Dern, who is featured successful nan documentary, was beside her begetter astatine nan premiere — she is presently successful accumulation connected The White Lotus Season 4, which is shooting adjacent by, astatine some Cannes and conscionable down nan roadworthy successful Saint-Tropez. In this upcoming caller play of Mike White’s HBO Max show, nan edifice Airelles Château de la Messardière successful Saint-Tropez will service arsenic nan White Lotus du Cap, joined by nan Hôtel Martinez connected nan Cannes Croisette arsenic nan White Lotus Cannes.

The crowd astatine today’s Dernsie screening was successful it from nan commencement — giving Dern a two-minute opinionated ovation earlier nan lights moreover went down. “It intends that you each springiness a sh*t,” Dern joked successful pre-screening remarks.

Ahead of nan premiere of their documentary, Dern and Mendez joined Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast and explained that a “Dernsie” is simply a very circumstantial word that was really coined by Jack Nicholson.

Dern has frankincense acold been nominated doubly for an Academy Award — successful 1979 for his supporting domiciled successful Coming Home, and again successful 2014 for Lead Actor successful Nebraska.

Dernsie besides includes appearances by Payne and Quentin Tarantino, pinch nan screenplay from Ben Epstein and cinematography by Robert L. Lucas.