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Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden Stuns Cannes With Record Ovation

Japanese director Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s first French-language film All of a Sudden premiered at Cannes to a seven-minute standing ovation—the longest of the festival so far. The three-hour drama follows two women at a Parisian nursing home confronting terminal illness, with Virginie Efira and Okamoto Tao leading; Neon holds North American rights, and the project was shot in Paris and Kyoto, inspired by real letters about illness and care.

via Variety|

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Cannes Delivers a Long Ovation for Hamaguchi's All of a Sudden

At Cannes, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden earned an 11-minute standing ovation after a 3-hour-plus screening; the somber drama, adapted from a book, follows a French nursing-home director and a visiting Japanese stage director, with audiences moved to tears, coming shortly after Club Kid drew a 7-minute ovation.

via Deadline|

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Hamaguchi Probes French Health Care in a Long, Humane Cannes Drama

Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden (Soudain), his first French-language feature, debuts at Cannes as the fest’s longest title this year. The drama follows a French nursing-home director and a visiting Japanese theatre director, weaving in debates about France’s health-care system, capitalism’s impact, and the Humane care approach called Humanitude. With strong performances, the film is praised for its humane intentions, but its 3+ hour length and lecture-like stretches threaten to dilute the drama.

via Deadline|

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Care as Conversation: Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden at Cannes

Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden (Soudain) is a patient, dialogue-driven meditation set in a Paris elder-care home that asks whether care and human dignity can endure under the pressures of aging populations and late‑stage capitalism; anchored by Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto, the film rewards patience with a humane exploration of friendship, mortality, and the small acts that sustain life.

via The Hollywood Reporter|

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Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden crafts a life-affirming night of dialogue

At Cannes, Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden follows Marie-Lou, director of a Paris care home, and Mari, a terminally ill patient, as they spend a night talking across French, English and Japanese. Their intimate exchange about care, capitalism, urbanism, and living in the present becomes a life‑changing, cinematic meditation on time and humanity, buoyed by generous performances and restrained craft, even as its 196‑minute length tests patience.

via Variety|

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Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden: A Cannes-Era Take on Life, Death and Capitalism

Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden, debuting at Cannes, interweaves a dying playwright’s existential musings with a nursing-home funding crisis in a long, intimate drama led by Tao Okamoto and Virginie Efira. The film, sung by multilingual dialogue and a nearly three-hour runtime, uses caregiver dynamics to probe capitalism’s failures while highlighting human kindness and connection, with actors detailing rigorous prep and a collaborative, patient directing process that reshapes their lives and careers.

via The Hollywood Reporter|

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