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The 2024 Cannes Film Festival’s Standing-O-Meter
Kinds of Kindness nets a relatively unkind 4.5-minute ovation by one measure.
Others feel the standing-ovation observation industry is “ total bullshit.” Be that as it may, clocking the standing O’s for Cannes premieres has become a pastime of cinephiles, and it’s on its way to becoming one more stat to throw into the Cinematrix. Either audiences’ vocal cords are completely exhausted from this week’s ovations, or the film’s sex and cannibalism and weirdo curiosities featuring Emma Stone made them want to exit the Palais as quickly as possible. On Twitter, Washington Post reporter Jada Yuan clarified that the O ended six minutes after the movie, but people stopped clapping during the credits.
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