Before the release of Leila and her brothers and Suffering on the Islands, Cannes’s longest-running 2022 film, AlloCiné has collected 10 years of data on the films in the competition. Are we moving towards a movie length record? We collect supplies.
This is a theme that often brings to life the conversations of festival-goers, especially as the festival draws to a close and the accumulated fatigue associated with it: Can the competition films in Cannes grow longer and longer from year to year?
2022, a record year? The answer is no! According to the data compiled in the AlloCiné database, the 2022 edition does not break the length record, but is very close to the record set in 2016 and 2000!
The 75th edition of the festival is in a really high length range. The average length of films this year is 124 minutes, which is one minute behind the festival all-time record. He stands for 125 minutes. This record was reached twice: in 2016 and in 2000. It should be noted that the average length of films in 2009, 1981 and 1978 was also 124 minutes.
Our schedule that summarizes the length of records by issue-by-issue.
This year, the two longest films of the 2nd week of the festival will be aired, in this case Said Rustaei Leïla et ses frères and Albert Serra Tourment sur les îles with a duration of 165 minutes. This is not a record of duration yet.
You must return in 2019 to find the longest film in the festival’s recent history: Mektoub My Love: Intermezzo by Abdelatif Kechiche in 212 minutes. Recall that this film did not come out after showing the skin in cinemas, which caused a lot of reactions.
AlloCiné has compiled the longest-running Cannes competition films in less than 10 years.
The longest films of the last 10 editions
2022 – Suffering on the islands Albert Serra and Leila and her brothers By Saeed Roustaee (tie) = 165 minutes
2021 – Driving my car with Ryusuke Hamaguchi = 177 minutes
2019 – Mektoub My Love: Intermezzo By Abdelatif Kechiche = 212 minutes
2018 – Wild Pear Tree Nuri Bilge Ceylan = 188 minutes
2017 – 120 beats per minute by Robin Campillo and Une femme douce by Sergei Loznitsa (added) = 143 minutes
2016 – Christy Puyus Sieranevada = 173 minutes
2015 – Fairy Tale by Matteo Garrone = 134 minutes
2014 – Winter Sleep by Nuri Bilge Ceylan = 196 minutes
2013 – La Vie d’Adèle Chapters 1 and 2 by Abdelatif Kechiche = 177 minutes
2012 – Beyond the Hills Christian Munjiu = 152 minutes
Notice the double presence of the films of Abdelatif Kechiche and Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
Which film in the competition has the longest-running record in Cannes history?
The record for the longest film in the entire history of the Cannes Film Festival goes to Sibériade and its 270 minutes! This film by Andrei Konchalovsky was in competition in 1979. The 250-minute Ariane Munchkin Moliere is in second place, selected in 1978.
Jacques Rivet has a double. With La Belle noiseuse (and its 240 minutes!), It is the 3rd longest film in 1991, followed by Va savoir – selected in 2000, the 4th longest film (220 minutes), tied to La Maman and fucking Jean Eustache. Michael Tsimino’s Paradise Gate (219 minutes) is in 5th place.
The 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival runs through Saturday, May 28th.
Source: allocine
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