For fans of North American cinema that combines the narrative vigor of film genres and the authorial ambition of the seventies generation, this Sunday was an important day at the Cannes Film Festival, because a new film by James Gray, responsible for films like Two Lovers or Ad Astra, and arguably the most undervalued North American director of recent decades. In France, however, critics and the public love him, and so does the Cannes Film Festival, which has screened Paper Tiger with all honors, a masterful drama about a New York family who, at the end of the summer of 1986, unexpectedly finds themselves in the crosshairs of the dangerous Russian mafia.