What would the Cannes Film Festival be without the minutes-long standing ovations?
Sure, you have the glitz and glamour of the red carpet and the films themselves, but everyone knows the cast and directors are hoping their movies provoke a record-breaking ovation.
While A-listers like Penelope Cruz and Cara Delevingne were granted their wish of a glorious ovation, others were left disappointed.
While there’s not an official time keeper of standing ovations, many publications all keep their own times and report back accordingly.
La Bola Negrav – 20 minutes
Actress Penelope Cruz has walked away from Cannes with the longest standing ovation of the year. You can watch the video at the top of this article.
La Bola Negra (The Black Ball) from directors Javier Calvó and Javier Ambrossi, received a nearly 20-minute-long ovation at Cannes.
The actress was moved to tears by the standing ovation, with the emotional moment caught on camera.
Cruz stars in the film, which is tells “interconnected stories of three men in three different eras.”
“Three lives intimately linked by sexuality and desire, pain and inheritance, and one of Federico García Lorca´s last, unfinished works,” according to the film’s synopsis.
The film had a reportedly “overwhelmingly positive” reaction from crowds.
The Man I Love – 10 minutes
Rami Malek was also brought to tears during a nine-minute standing ovation for his film The Man I Love, from director Ira Sachs.
The film follows the harrowing journey of fictional New York theatre star Jimmy George, who is forced to face his own mortality following an AIDS diagnosis in the late 1980s.
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Malek could be seen tearing up during the ovation, with the crowd cheering for nine whole minutes.
Paper Tiger – six to ten minutes
Hollywood A-lister Scarlett Johansson is the star of Paper Tiger, which received a standing ovation between six and ten minutes long.
Director James Grey reportedly tried to ring the actress, who did not attend the festival, in front of the crowd following the film’s debut; however, she didn’t pick up – awkward.
At least his movie had one of the longest ovations of the week!
Club Kid – seven minutes
Cara Delevingne is one of the many actors featured in Club Kid from US writer Jordan Firstman.
The film received a seven-minute ovation, with Delevingne breaking down into tears as the crowd applauded.
Following the screening, the actress told The Mirror she had “never cried so much.”
“I think I haven’t cried and laughed that much in a movie, it just to be able to feel that range of emotion through watching something with everyone next to you in the cast,” she said.
The crowd also reportedly burst into laughter and broke into tears a few times during the film.
Firstman picked up his on-screen son, Reggie Absolom, when the film ended, with the audience chanting for them.
The film follows a club promoter who is “forced to turn his life around” when an unexpected visitor, his son he never knew existed turns up.
Other honourable mentions can be found below.
All of a Sudden – seven to eleven minutes
Japanese filmmaker Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s first French-language film, All of a Sudden, received one of the most emotional standing ovations.
Variety said the film received a 7-minute applause, while Deadline reported an 11-minute applause.
While there were conflicting reports once again, everyone agreed it received one of the longest ovations this year – and the most emotional.
There were reports of people sobbing during the credits.
The film follows two scholars brought together by sending each other letters.
One falls ill, and their conversations turn towards mortality, with a deeper connection forming between them.
Fatherland – five minutes
The latest film from Pawel Pawlikowski, Fatherland, received a standing ovation between four and a half minutes and seven minutes long.
Vulture averaged it out to five minutes. Deadline reported a six minute ovation, while The Hollywood Reporter said it was a quick four and a half minute ovation.
The film is set during the Cold War, following a father and his daughter who go on a road trip across Germany, heading from the US-dominated Frankfurt to the Soviet city of Weimar.
“I hope at least fifty per cent of you really meant it,” director Pawlikowski reportedly said following the ovation.
Parallel Tales – gets a ‘polite’ six minutes
“Polite but not especially enthusiastic” is how The Hollywood Reporter described the six-minute ovation that followed Parallel Tales by filmmaker Asghar Farhadi. Brutal.
Deadline put the ovation at seven minutes, Variety said it was five and a half minutes, while The Hollywood Reporter said it was 5.8 minutes, with Vulture rounding it to an average of six minutes based on those reports.
The French-language film follows a group of nosey neighbours whose lives happen to intertwine.
Hope – six minutes
Sci-fi thriller Hope by Korean Director Na Hong-jin received a 6.3-minute ovation (averaged).
Deadline said the ovation lasted seven minutes, while The Hollywood Reporter said it lasted for six minutes.
Variety, which described the film as a “bats–t crazy Korean monster movie,” timed the ovation at 6 minutes.
Deadline said the applause was enthusiastic but “tempered” adding, “had it ended 20 minutes earlier, the applause would’ve been through the roof.”
The Beloved – seven minutes
Variety and Deadline were in agreement that The Beloved (El Ser Querido), starring Javier Bardem, received a seven-minute standing ovation.
The film, by Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen, follows a famous director and his unsuccessful actress daughter trying to shoot a film together after a period of estrangement between the pair.
The crowd erupted into “Rapturous” applause when the film ended.
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