The Cannes 2025 Standing Ovations Begin
The Cannes Film Festival is known for many things, but one thing that’s become more common in recent years is its long standing ovations as a reflection of a film’s quality. Last year “The Substance” had the longest for the fest with an 13 minute ovation, beating out “Emilia Perez” with 11 minutes, “The Apprentice” […] The post The Cannes 2025 Standing Ovations Begin appeared first on Dark Horizons.
The Cannes Film Festival is known for many things, but one thing that’s become more common in recent years is its long standing ovations as a reflection of a film’s quality.
Last year “The Substance” had the longest for the fest with an 13 minute ovation, beating out “Emilia Perez” with 11 minutes, “The Apprentice” with 8 minutes and “Anora” with 7.5 minutes.
A more mediocre response came for “Furiosa,” “Bird,” “Megalopolis” and “Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter One” with 7 minutes; “The Surfer” with 6 minutes; “Rumours” with 4 minutes, and “Oh Canada” and “The Shrouds” with a tepid 3 minutes.
One issue is that accounts of how long the applause goes on for can vary considerably by outlet, and in this year’s edition so far that disparity is worse than ever. Lynne Ramsay’s psychosexual drama “Die My Love,” starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, premiered tonight with Variety reporting a 6-minute standing ovation whereas Deadline reports a 9-minute one.
The gap is even wider for Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague” which Variety says had a 6.5 minute ovation while Deadline is reporting a whopping 11-minute one. It’s smaller for Ari Aster’s “Eddington” with the respective outlets reporting 5 minute & 7 minute ovations.
Deadline is obviously being much more generous with its ovation count. Other ovation counts it has announced for this year’s edition so far include 12 minutes for Hafsia Herzi’s “The Little Sister,” Dominik Moll’s “Dossier 137” got 8 minutes, Chris McQuarrie’s “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” got 7.5 minutes, and both Kristen Stewart’s “The Chronology of Water” and for doco “Bono: Stories of Surrender” got 6.5 minutes.
There will be more to come, but the talk of Cannes today was a costume stunt – a man in a giant condor suit on the red carpet for “Die My Love”. The bird man was a character from Raphael Quenard’s documentary “I Love Peru” which was premiering in the festival’s Cannes Classics section.
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