John Travolta touched down at Cannes with his directorial debut, Propeller One-Way Night Coach, at the Cannes Film Festival, where he was given the honorary Palme d’Or.
Festival head Thierry Frémaux gave Travolta the honor. “You said this would be a special night, but I didn’t think you meant this. This is a humbling moment,” said Travolta. “This is beyond the Oscar.”
The film, which is set to debut on Apple on May 29, is based on Travolta’s book of the same name and follows a young aviation enthusiast, Jeff, and his mother as they embark on a cross-country flight to Hollywood.
“When John came to us in the fall, he was very humble and shy with the idea of showing the film as an official selec[tion],” said Frémaux, revealing that Propeller was the first film chosen for the 79th edition of the French festival and calling Travolta “one of the greatest artists of the 20th and 21st century.”
“When you told me this would be the earliest film accepted, I cried,” said Travolta. Frémaux joked, “I was afraid Berlin could have stolen the film.”
