Sicario was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. The film follows a principled FBI Special Agent who is enlisted by a government task force to bring down the leader of a powerful and brutal Mexican drug cartel. Sicario ( pronounced Spanish for ' hitman') is a 2015 American action thriller film directed by Denis Villeneuve, written by Taylor Sheridan and starring Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, and Josh Brolin.
