Cannes 2026: All of a Sudden movie review – Ryusuke Hamaguchi wows with Paris-set drama
4/5 stars
Despite being set in Paris, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden eschews the city’s touristic landmarks.
Rather, he focuses on hospitals, suburban trams and skyscrapers – a landscape as different as one would expect from a non-French director making a film in the French capital for the first time.
But the three-hour-plus film offers other pleasant surprises as well.
Pivoting further from the Rohmer-esque romantic dramas of his early career, Hamaguchi doubles down on the fiery political...
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