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WireImage Hamaguchi Ryusuke watched the standing ovation after the Cannes premiere of “All of a Sudden” with a degree of caution. He is not, he says, someone who takes ovations entirely at face value.
“I also know that a standing ovation is kind of a tradition here,” he tells Variety. “I don’t know how seriously I’m supposed to take it.” But then he looked at the faces. “I felt very much that the film was being accepted by the people.” What settled it for him wasn’t the applause but what he saw in his leads: Virginie Efira and Okamoto Tao, both of them visibly moved. “They looked like they had just accomplished something really important,” he says. “To be able to see their expressions and to be with them gave me a lot of happiness.”
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