Pattinson and Pitt face off at Cannes

A Hollywood master and a young pretender go head to head for Cannes’ top prize tomorrow, as films starring Brad Pitt and Robert Pattinson had their premieres this week.

In Canadian director David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis, Pattinson is a ruthless billionaire on a journey to self-destruction in a searing attack on capitalism.

In the movie, based on a Don DeLillo novel of the same name, capitalism is corrupting, characters cannot communicate, and people joke that rats could be the new currency. The film is competing for the festival’s top prize, the Palme d’Or, to be awarded tomorrow.