Crime does pay and the price tag is your life in 'Killing Them Softly', an artfully composed, slow-burning crime thriller based on the novel 'Cogan’s Trade' by George V Higgins.

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.

Brad Pitt’s role as a brutal mob enforcer is not just a gangster story but a commentary on modern living, he said today.