Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto win best actress award at Cannes - Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi's directing method

Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto, who starred in ``Suddenly Feeling Sick,'' won the Best Actress Award at the 79th Cannes Film Festival.

Behind the two's excellent performances that impressed audiences and judges at the world's top film festival lies director Ryusuke Hamaguchi's unique directing method, which can be called "magic."

Turn your impressions into a movie

Director Hamaguchi's works always center around the dialogue between the characters.

Even if no major incident occurs on the surface, as the characters exchange words, there is a big movement inside the characters, which moves the audience.

``Suddenly Feeling Unwell'' was also conceived by director Hamaguchi, who had read the original work, as a dialogue drama to capture his feelings after reading the story.

"It was very moving. It was very similar to the feeling I want to evoke in the audience with my films."

A large number of lines are required to express that "feeling".

When the French side approached them about co-production, they realized that ``in France, a conversation drama can be made into a commercial film.''

In the middle of the movie, for over 30 minutes, there is a discussion between Mari, played by Okamoto, and Marie-Lou, played by Efira.

The contents include the nursing care technique called ``Humanitude'' and how capitalism exploits the ``outside.'' The scene is like listening to a lecture, but the words of the two people draw you in.

Director Hamaguchi says casually.

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