Mamoru Hosoda‘s latest film, Belle (Ryū to Sobakasu no Hime, literally “The Dragon and the Freckled Princess”), has reportedly received a 14-minute-long standing ovation by its audience following its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
The prestigious film festival has a reputation for long standing ovation times. According to a list compiled by Quartz in 2019 based on contemporary news reports, Belle‘s standing ovation would be among the longest to be reported on in the festival’s history, ahead of Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine and behind Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum and Lee Daniels’ The Paperboy. (Quartz notes that the list is not comprehensive, and is only a sampling of some of the films whose applause lengths were documented at the time.)
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