Firebrand: Alicia Vikander and Jude Law get eight-minute standing ovation at Cannes
Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAlicia Vikander and Jude Law were greeted with a standing ovation fit for royalty at the Cannes premiere of the brutal historical drama Firebrand on Sunday (21 May).The movie, from director Karim Aïnouz and set in a blood-splattered Tudor England, stars Vikander as Katherine Parr, the sixth and final wife of the tyrannical King Henry VIII (Jude Law).According to US insider site…