The director of Palme d’Or contender American Honey has spoken about how the experience of making her first movie outside the UK informed her thinking about poverty and opportunity both sides of the Atlantic
Few films at the Cannes film festival have been as highly-anticipated as American Honey, British director Andrea Arnold’s first movie made outside the UK. But speaking to press on Sunday, in the wake of largely rave reviews and ahead of the film’s official red carpet gala, Arnold revealed that the experience of driving round the country researching the movie was almost as transformative as making it. “I had some quite difficult times travelling by myself, being in that open wilderness,” said Arnold, who won the jury prize at Cannes for Red Road in 2006 and three years later for Fish Tank. “Being on my own in those big open spaces was quite interesting but it was quite solitary at times.” Arnold recalled tornado lessons offered to her by one woman in an especially remote and stormy part of Alabama.

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