The other title, I Lost My Body, won the best film award at the Independent International Critics’ Week section of the festival and also took the Nespresso Grand Prize. The animated flick from Jérémy Clapin is an unusual one — it follows a cut-off hand as it flees a lab to get back to the young man that it belongs to, and the woman that changed their lives.

As with earlier acquisitions, Netflix’s latest moves are fairly transparent. This helps it add prestige to its movie catalog and could help it chase further critical glory. It’s also a reminder to the Cannes organizers that excluding streaming services like Netflix won’t necessarily prevent those upstarts from competing with conventional theatrical releases — they’ll just find another way around.

The series is a moody crime drama that explores Los Angeles’s seedy lawless side, and it’s being hyped as the latest project by director Nicolas Winding Refn, who won best director at Cannes in 2011 for Drive. Refn is also behind the thriller Only God Forgives and The Neon Demon, both of which previously ran at the festival. That’s perhaps a testament that a big name is one way to rise above the streaming versus cinema battle — though the series still won’t be eligible for any awards.

Most of us will have to wait until June 14 to catch Too Old to Die Young when it debuts on Amazon Prime. Rumor has it each episode will be about 90 minutes, and as the trailer shows, it’ll explore everything for corrupt cops to working-class hit men, cartel assassins, mafia captains and teenage killers.

The trailer for “Too Old To Die Young” has finally arrived. Check it out and watch the series premiere June 14th on Amazon Prime. pic.twitter.com/rTcCMfezZu

— Miles Teller (@Miles_Teller) April 3, 2019