South Korean cinema industry added To the global winning streak on Saturday harvest two key Awards at the Cannes Film Festival for Husband of Beloved veterans.
Star director Park Chan-wook grabbed an award best director award for his gender crime movie “Decision to leave.” While Song Kang Ho, best a favour for for him role in Oscar-winning movie “Parasite” up The best Actor Gong for “mediator”.
Park’s entry into Cannes came nearly two decades after his movie “Old Boy” which… won festivals second-highest prize in 2004.
That mind-bending shockwave helped take off South Korea cinema on me global Stage – years before the “parasite” who won 2019 Palme d’Or and best Photo at the 2020 Oscars.
Park, 58, told an audience that he was optimistic about future of movie-Going.
“With the epidemic, the borders were closed. We were very afraid of Theaters were all empty, but little by little, audiences would rediscover cinema, Park said.
‘Decision to leave’ features Chinese star Tang Wei and Korean actor Park Hae Il Weroyan story of a detective whoinvestigate the man fatal Fall from a mountain, come under the influence of magic of The wife of the suspected victim of take caused to her husband’s death.
not romantic
The detective storywhich comparisons have been made with remote more The overtly erotic thriller “Basic Instinct” is increasingly intertwined with Mutual gravity sweeping main characters.
“I’m not a romantic, but I’m very interested in expression of “The film was first shown at the festival,” Park told AFP when the film premiered at the festival.
The movie’s great soundtrack includes Adagietto in Gustav Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, Immortal in 1971 movie Death in Venice by Luccino Visconti.
Park said the movie was inspired by the methodical police work It includes in Swedish “Martin Beck” crime Thriller books. “That’s what I am wanted to represent in a movie,” He said.
The “decision to leave” was warmly received by the public of Cannes. The BBC called it a “romantic thriller” and British magazine Screen said it was “extremely satisfying”. tale.
Bittersweet and complicated
Song, 55 years old won Acting honors for for him role in “Broker” about the fall of a woman off unwanted child in a “baby box” for adoption.
He plays a middle-hearted man trying to sell the baby to a loving person family in Japanese director Hirokazu Kureda first Korean-language feature.
kore eda won Golden Palm in 2018 for touch it family tale “thieves”.
“I’m very happy for all my familysaid Song as before trophy at the celebration party on French Riviera.
something of a national Treasure, sung shine in many of of The Greatest Divided Country movies.
The song has made Four movies with “parasite” director Bong Joon Ho including 2006 monster Flick “The Host” and Bong’s first Einglish-language The movie “Snowpiercer” both of which was box office And the critical Smashing.
He started his career on stage, sung made for him first movie appearance in 1996 in acclaimed now director Hong Sang Soo debut movie”The day the pig fell into a well.”
Since then, he appeared in more I have done 30 films with South Korea’s top filmmakers including Park Chan-wook, Kang Ji-gyu and Lee Chang-dong.
British film magazine described the “Realtor” screen as a sensitive and compassionate look at market for unwanted children”While the United States movie website IndieWire said it was “bittersweet and complicated family drama.”
Robin Ostlund’s Triangle of Sadness wins the Palme d’Or at Cannes
Director Robin Ostlund new movie “triangle of Melancholy” (Hüzün Üçgeni), co-produced by the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT), won Palme d’Or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival.
Swedish director won one of most popular cinema Awards for a second Shortly after winning the highest honor at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017 for “Square.”
“triangle of sadness “a social spelling on Wealthy and influential industrialists, including two models The Influencers, Carl (Harris Dickinson) and Yaya (Sharby Dean) who are invited on Cruise on a luxury yacht.
In addition to Turkey, another co-producer countries They were Sweden, France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Greece.
The Cannes Jury, chaired by French actor Vincent Lyndon, awarded the second prizeGrand Prix, into French director Claire Dennis for “Stars at Noon”, Belgian director Lucas Donut for “Close.”
The jury award was divided between “EO” by a Polish director Jerzy Skollimowski and “The Eight Mountains”, an Italian-language Drama by Charlotte Vandermerch and Felix van Groningen.
