“All of a Sudden” stars Virginie Efira (“Benedatta”) as Marie-Lou Fontaine, a director of a nursing home in the Paris suburbs, who defies convention by adopting the “Humanitude” method despite her team’s resistance. Her encounter with Mari Morisaki, a terminally ill Japanese playwright, transforms her life. Together, they turn the facility into a symbol of resistance and humanity against the system’s limits. Efira learned Japanese for the part.
In a previous interview with Variety, Hamaguchi said “Humanitude” stands for a “French method that was imported in Japan (…) and puts the human dimension at the heart of the treatment care, for the integrity of each human being.”
The film is loosely inspired by a collection of real-life exchanged letters published in the book “You and…
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