Cannes has always offered a home to both audacious genre filmmaking and politically engaged, social issue cinema but it’s usually been an either/or proposition.
Festival juries, meanwhile, have tended to celebrate one at the expense of the other. While Quentin Tarantino’s 2004 jury paid honor to both offerings — awarding Park Chan-wook’s “Oldboy” the Grand Prize and Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” the Palme d’Or – most have signaled a marked preference for politically liberal, if formally conservative works like Ken Loach’s “I, Daniel Blake” in lieu of more outré offerings.
So it will be particularly interesting to see what this year’s Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu-led bunch makes of Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite,” a genre-bending dark comedy with searing class consciousness that premiered in Cannes on Tuesday.
Also Read: 'Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood' Film Review: A Contemplative Quentin Tarantino Still Blows the Roof Off...
Festival juries, meanwhile, have tended to celebrate one at the expense of the other. While Quentin Tarantino’s 2004 jury paid honor to both offerings — awarding Park Chan-wook’s “Oldboy” the Grand Prize and Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” the Palme d’Or – most have signaled a marked preference for politically liberal, if formally conservative works like Ken Loach’s “I, Daniel Blake” in lieu of more outré offerings.
So it will be particularly interesting to see what this year’s Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu-led bunch makes of Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite,” a genre-bending dark comedy with searing class consciousness that premiered in Cannes on Tuesday.
Also Read: 'Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood' Film Review: A Contemplative Quentin Tarantino Still Blows the Roof Off...
- 5/21/2019
- by Ben Croll
- The Wrap
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