Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto star in Ryusuke Hamaguchi's "All of a Sudden," a transcendently talkative film about care and conversation.

Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto star in Ryusuke Hamaguchi's "All of a Sudden," a transcendently talkative film about care and conversation.

Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto star in the filmmaker's first French-language work, set at a Paris nursing home where two strangers are fortified by their belief in human dignity.

Hamaguchi Ryusuke's first French-language film, starring Virginie Efira and Okamoto Tao, premiered in Cannes competition to a 7-minute ovation.