After the public screening of the film during the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs 2015 (director's fortnight) at Cannes Festival, on the 16th of May 2015, the director and actors present (Benicio Del Toro, Mélanie Thierry) received a five-minute standing ovation.
Benicio Del Toro was presented with the honorary award, Heart of Sarajevo, at the Sarajevo Film Festival.
It is based on the novel "Dejarse Llover" by Paula Farias. The English translation of the Spanish novel title "Dejarse Llover" is "Let It Rain."
When B (played by Tim Robbins) consults his book regarding getting around the cow in the road, there's a very noticeable coffee ring stain on one of the pages. The movie Na Roda da Fortuna (1994) is about Robbins's character coming up with the idea of the hula hoop because of a coffee ring stain. Remarkably this stain had no bearing or relation to the Hudsucker Proxy. It's a coincidence.