Cannes 2023: What makes a standing ovation last 22 minutes at the festival?
The HinduThe Cannes Film Festival is on, which means stopwatches are out. If Cannes, the world’s largest and glitziest film festival, stands for cinematic excess, its thunderous standing ovations can seem like its greatest overindulgence. “And it makes me feel good.” Much of how long a standing ovation endures relates to whether the film’s stars push it along or cater to the camera. “I don’t think we put on the poster that there was a 20-minute standing ovation at Cannes,” says Christine Vachon, the film's producer. “But when it happens, and a movie is celebrated after a lot of hard work, of course it’s incredibly gratifying.” The longest Cannes ovation on record belongs to Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, which scored a 22-minute feting, enough time to watch an episode of Seinfeld without the ads.
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