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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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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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Farhadi's Parallel Tales Overloads Voyeurism at Cannes

At Cannes, Asghar Farhadi's Parallel Tales unfolds as a stylish but frustrating ensemble drama about voyeurism and the tension between truth and imagination. Isabelle Huppert leads as Sylvie with Virginie Efira in dual roles as Anna, weaving together interlocking story threads that echo Dekalog but never fully cohere. The film is visually polished and features strong performances, especially Efira, and Zbigniew Preisner’s score, but the overstuffed structure drains momentum over its 2 hour 20 minute runtime. Plans to remake the Dekalog chapters are mentioned, but the reviewer feels the movie remains underpowered and overly convoluted.

via The Hollywood Reporter|

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Farhadi’s Parallel Tales Falters in a Voyeuristic Mind Game

In Cannes, Asghar Farhadi’s Parallel Tales ambitiously toys with fiction versus reality through a French-set tale of a novelist spying on a neighbor, a meta-play about a sound-studio, and a love-triangle. But the review finds the film muddled and meandering, with underdeveloped characters and a head-game structure that never fully engages, despite strong performances from Huppert and Efira.

via Variety|

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