Yukiko Sode on Cannes Un Certain Regard Title ‘All the Lovers in the Night’: ‘Two People on the Margins of the World’

For Yukiko Sode, the challenge wasn’t pressure – it was pleasure. Adapting Mieko Kawakami’s introspective novel “All the Lovers in the Night” for the screen meant externalizing a protagonist’s inner world, a task the director describes not as burden but as sustained creative exploration. “It was certainly a challenge to find a way to externalize […]