Review | All of a Sudden: Ryusuke Hamaguchi wows with Paris-set drama
- On Friday, director Ryusuke Hamaguchi premiered his first French-language film, All of a Sudden, at the 79th Cannes Film Festival, receiving an effusive 11-minute standing ovation.
- Loosely inspired by the book When Life Suddenly Takes a Turn: Twenty Letters Between a Philosopher with Terminal Cancer and a Medical Anthropologist, the film follows Marie-Lou Fontaine, a nursing home director advocating for a compassion-based care approach called "Humanitude."
- Co-Starring Tao Okamoto as a visiting stage director, the 3-hour-and-16-minute drama explores the bond between two women facing illness, with both leads delivering understated performances.
- While some viewers found the dialogue-heavy sequences challenging, the film ultimately evolves into a "moving affirmation of the basic human rights of respect and dignity," leaving many audience members at the Palais weeping openly.
- North American rights are held by Neon, which will release the film theatrically; this marks Hamaguchi's third appearance at Cannes, following his 2021 success with Drive My Car, which won three prizes and received four Academy Award nominations.
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At the 79th film festival in Cannes, the film "Sudder for My Car" was premiered by Japanese film director Ryusuke Hamaguchi, author of the Oscaric "Sit for My Car" and "The Evil does not exist." The film "Suddenly" in France describes the fleeting friendship of two French elderly women, Marie-Lou, director of the old people's home, and the Japanese theater director Marie. They draw close to death — Marie is terminally ill. In a short period of t…
All Of A Sudden movie review: Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s film explores the difference between living and dying
All Of A Sudden movie review: Ryusuke Hamaguchi's deeply observant style suits the central thrust of the film, which is mainly set in a home for the elderly, where the big themes accompanying end-of-life scenarios are a natural outcome.
In this film, the Japanese director advocates respect for human dignity.
Soudain (All of a Sudden), the new Japanese film by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, is part of a 20-letter correspondence on illness, life and death between the cancer-sick philosopher Makiko Miyano and anthropologist Maho Isono. From this exchange, the Japanese filmmaker has written along with the French-speaking Léa Le Dimna a film that has been filmed in France and that sails for more than three hours for the random and intense friendship of two women — t…
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elDiarioARThe Japanese filmmaker, who won the Oscar with 'Drive my car', gets excited with the exciting 'Soudain (All of a Sudden', more than three hours that are like an embrace Diego Luna addresses migration in Cannes: "There is a narrative of conflict and confrontation between Spain and Mexico" At a time when cinema lives with great gestures, of authoring exhibitions masked in an epatenting exhibitionism, Riusuke Hamaguchi is a species in extinction. A…
Cannes Heats Up As Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ‘All Of A Sudden’ Gets 11-Minute Standing Ovation
After a somewhat quiet few days, the Cannes Film Festival is heating up with two big audience responses to buzzy films. The first, earlier this afternoon was Jordan Firstman’s out-of-competition Club Kid, which got a lot of laughs and a 7-minute standing ovation. Just minutes later came director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden, which saw an effusive 11-minute cascade of applause punctuated by screams of “bravo” from the enthusiastic crow…
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