The veteran auteur told a podcast Todd Phillips' antihero musical starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga impressed him during a screening at the cinema.

Although Paul Schrader, Bill Maher and others have slammed the movie, video game creator Hideo Kojima said he could see it becoming a cult classic in the next couple of decades, and Quentin Tarantino also came to the film’s defense.

Folie à Deux" - the film currently has dismal 32% scores on Rotten Tomatoes from critics and audiences alike, an unusual consensus on this sort of thing, and is on track to lose over $150m - but it does have one high-profile fan: Quentin Tarantino.