A film debuting at Cannes charts the young developer’s relationship with the legendarily machiavellian lawyer
It has long been considered that making a movie about Donald Trump was virtually impossible, if not for the divisive subject material itself, but because the former US president was already playing that character to the hilt – and sometimes beyond.
But last week, the Cannes film festival announced that it was adding the Iranian-Danish film-maker Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice to its 2024 official film selection for the event’s main competition.
