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He Cannes Film Festival is underway and the timers are set for the cheers.
Nowhere is the duration of standing applause at high-voltage premieres recorded and analyzed more carefully than in Cannes. Has a film received an eight-minute standing ovation? Or did the audience stand still for four or five minutes?
How is it that such a rare metric resonates around the world just minutes after its premiere? And why is everyone on their feet for so long? Does anyone have tired hands?
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Such effusive displays of enthusiasm have become a hallmark of Cannes and sometimes as a marketing gimmick for films looking to gain traction off the Boulevard de la Croisette. Yes Cannes, the largest and most dazzling film festival in the world, stands for cinematic excess, its thunderous standing ovations seem to be its greatest excess. Nobody needs a toilet break?
However, less is known about how the pump works Cannes shapes and distorts the ovation. When the audience gets up after the credits Great Theater Lumierethe largest screen of CannesThey don’t just stand there and applaud the movie they just saw.
Immediately after a movie ends, a cameraman rushes in and starts filming the filmmaker and cast members sitting in the middle of the theater. This video is played live on screen for everyone in attendance while the camera, often very patiently, brings each celebrity actor to the fore. The applause is not only for the film, but also for each individual star.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, from left, director James Mangold, Harrison Ford, Shaunette Renee Wilson and Mads Mikkelsen pose upon arrival at the premiere for the film Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny at the 76th Annual Indiana Jones Cinema in Cannes, Southern France, on Thursday May 18, 2023. (Photo Scott Garfitt/Invision/AP)
If Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny) recently premiered in Cannesthe camera gave Mads Mikkelsen, Phoebe Waller Bridge, Ethan Isidore, Harrison Ford and to the director James Mangold her own moment to enjoy the flattery. In the end, the publications, which reporters had in the theater to time, drew a five-minute standing ovation. Variety called it a “lukewarm” reception.
In other parts of the world, a five-minute standing ovation would be a dream reaction. In Cannesit seems, is almost as tasteless as an espresso from the day before.
The criticism of Fate dial they were indeed mixed. But it may also be that the audience or the stars of the film have had enough after a 142-minute film preceded by a highly animated homage ford. The next day, a ford Visibly moved, he described the experience as “indescribable”.
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“The warmth of this place, the sense of community, the welcome is unimaginable,” he said. ford. “And it makes me feel good.”
Much of the length of an ovation depends on whether the film’s stars are pushing for it or facing the camera. At the premiere of Flowers of the Killer Moon (flower moon killer) from Martin Scorseseafter the film’s numerous cast members got their close-ups, Leonardo DiCaprio and others from the film continued to applaud even after most of the audience had stopped. Then the attending Osage tribesmen livened up the applause with loud cheers.
In the end, the nine-minute mark was reached Flowers of the Killer Moon, was enough to mark a milestone at this year’s festival. The epic historical film scorsese pulls in the kind of headlines any movie desires Cannes. Movies don’t get a second chance to make a first impression.
There is a notion that in Cannes, ovation time is the thermometer of films (AP Photo/Jake Coyle)
And for those who experience such reactions firsthand, it can be deeply emotional. In 2015, the 1950s romance of Todd Haynes, Carolpremiered in Cannes with a 10-minute ovation.
“I don’t think we pointed out that there was a twenty minute standing ovation Cannes“, says Christine Vachon, the producer of the film. “But of course when it happens and a film is celebrated after a lot of work, it’s incredibly rewarding.”
Longest recorded ovation in year Cannes belonging The Pan Mazefrom Guillermo del Torowhere there was a 22 minute party, enough time to watch an episode of it His field (without advertisement). Fahrenheit 9/11from Michael Mooreon the way to victory Palme d’Or In Cannes 2004was applauded for twenty minutes. dirt (The boy and the fugitive) from Jeff Nichols In 2012, she was cheered on for eighteen minutes.
A stopwatch-defying ovation doesn’t always result in quality. The paper boy (The Newsboy) LeeDanielss isn’t exactly considered a modern classic, but it received a fifteen-minute standing ovation in 2012.
Cannes has long been known for his passionate responses. Some highly regarded films, like apocalypse now (apocalypse now), from Francis Ford CoppolaThey were booed at the festival. But boos are more likely to be heard at press screenings than at gala premieres in formal attire. Standing ovations are more or less a question of etiquette.
At this year’s festival, the most outstanding films were well received. May Decemberfrom Hayneswith Natalie Portman And Julianne Moorealmost matched his answer Carol, to an eight-minute ovation. The historical drama of Karim Ainouz, arsonistprepared by Alice Vikander And Jude Lawrecorded the same thing. Vikander He called the loud roar of the crowd a moving and unforgettable experience.
“I was shaking a bit,” Vikander said. “It really turns you on.”
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