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The longest standing ovation at Cannes? A whopping 22 minutes

That’s the length of a sitcom episode...

What makes a standing ovation last 22 minutes at Cannes?

CANNES, France (AP) — The Cannes Film Festival is on, which means stopwatches are out. Nowhere are the length of standing ovations at high-wattage premieres more carefully recorded and parsed than in Cannes. Did a movie garner a triumphant eight-minute standing ovation? Or did the audience stand for a mere four or five minutes? How has such an unlikely metric come to reverberate around the world within minutes of a premiere? And why is everyone…