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'All of a Sudden' Is a Wondrous Work About Caring for One Another

TIME·Stephanie Zacharek·17 days ago
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You can’t rush a Ryusuke Hamaguchi movie. These are pictures you need to settle into; you live with them and in them as they unspool before you. That’s certainly true of All of a Sudden, playing in competition here at the Cannes Film Festival. Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car won the Oscar for Best International Feature in 2022, and considering its three-hour runtime, it seemed to chime with a fairly large number of viewers: The story of a widowed actor who forms a bond with the young woman who’s been hired to drive him to a directing gig in Nagasaki, Drive My Car was perhaps the perfect movie for our late-pandemic listlessness. Hamaguchi followed the success of that picture in 2023 with the somewhat feistier Evil Does Not Exist, about a single father fighting a planned “glamping” site in the forest area he and his daughter call home. That movie featured an extended town-council meeting, but that’s the sort of thing Hamaguchi can pull off.…

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