Cannes
Jun 21, 2019
3 minutes
Words by HANNAH WOODHEAD & ADAM WOODWARD
Illustration by
LAURENE BOGLIO
1. Parasite
merging triumphant with top honours at the festival this year was Bong Joon-ho – incidentally, the first Korean filmmaker to ever win the Palme d’Or. His biting social satire was a more than worthy winner, taking him back to his native country after his considerably larger scale projects and . A down-on-their-luck family hatch a plot to take advantage of the much wealthier Park clan, but things rapidly spiral out of their control. Bong’s razor-sharp wit reaches its zenith as he takes
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