Further up the Croisette, for instance, the rival «directors» fortnight» sidebar finds space for The Florida Project — a heart - stopping portrait of child poverty, evocatively played out around Orlando's
flophouse motels.
A sensation at the Cannes, Toronto and New York film festivals (it opens Oct. 6), the movie is set at the Magic Castle
motel near Orlando, a sun - kissed lavender
flophouse where Halley (Bria Vinaite), a ne'er - do - well sexpot with exploding rose tattoos and hair dyed the color of fiberglass, lives with her 6 - year - old daughter, Moonee (the remarkable Brooklynn Kimberly Prince).