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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.
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.
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.