All of a Sudden
Drama Japanese
Marie-Lou Fontaine, director of a nursing home in the Paris suburbs, defies convention by adopting the 'Humanitude' method despite her team’s resistance. Her encounter with Mari Morisaki, a terminally ill Japanese playwright, transforms her life. Together, they turn the facility into a symbol of resistance and humanity against the system’s limits.
| Cast: | Virginie Efira, Tao Okamoto, Gabriel Dahmani, Kyōzō Nagatsuka, Kodai Kurosaki, Jean-Charles Clichet, Marie Bunel, Jean-Louis Garçon, Evelyne Istria, Lazare Gousseau, Jérôme Chappatte |
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| Director: | Ryusuke Hamaguchi |
| Editor: | Azusa Yamazaki |
| Camera: | Alan Guichaoua |
All Guild Reviews of "All of a Sudden"
Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Film Explores the Difference Between Living and Dying
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.
To say that Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ‘All Of A Sudden’ (Cannes competition) is a long film – it weighs in at a solid 3.15 hours – is stating the obvious. The Japanese auteur doesn’t do sudden – the title is a nice little touch of unintentional irony; a leisurely unfolding of events is much more his thing. In fact, he doesn’t do events either; capturing moments like no one’s looking is more like it. Here, his 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.
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