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    One thing the Cannes Film Festival jury got right: Bong Joon-ho's 'Parasite' victory

    by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times May 28, 2019 4 minutes

    CANNES, France - Bong Joon-ho's "Parasite" is the best movie to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes since - well, last year's winner, Hirokazu Kore-eda's "Shoplifters," a movie that it resembles in some very strange, funny and surely unintended ways.

    Like "Shoplifters," "Parasite" is a moving and suspenseful portrait of an impoverished family that resorts to some desperate, dishonest survival tactics. Unlike "Shoplifters," it's an insidiously creepy entertainment that swerves violently (but oh so beautifully) between tones and genres, building up a head of darkly comic steam before suddenly giving way to full-tilt horror and devastation. I'm deliberately writing around the

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