74 Cannes Film Festival, opened by Bong Joon-ho and closed by Lee Byung-hun..28 Years Only, Director Palme d'Or Honor
74th Cannes Film Festival. There was no Korean movie invited to the competition, but it was the Awards that showed the status of the Korean film industry with the opening of Bong Joon-ho and the closing of Lee Byung-hun.
The 74th Cannes International Film Festival closing ceremony was held in Cannes, a recreational city in the southern part of France, on Thursday (local time). At the Awards, which were held together at the closing ceremony, the Cannes top honor, Palme d'Or, was won by Julia Duconau's "Titane" (TITAN), who depicted the story of a female serial killer meeting the boy's father, pretending to be a missing boy fleeing police. It was only 28 years since the female director received the Palme d'Or in 1993 after Jane Campion's "Piano" at the 43rd Awards.
The director award was to Leo Carax, who directed the opening film "Anette" (ANNETTE), and the screenplay award went to Ryusuke Hamaguchi and writer Takamasa Oi in the Japanese film "Drive My Car".
Caleb Lundry Jones in the Australian film "Nitram" (directed by Justin Curzel) and Renat Reinzeb in the Norwegian film "The Worst Person in the World" (directed by Joachim Trier) held the best actor award in their arms.
If Lee Byung-hun was on stage at the closing ceremony, the 6th Awards showed a surprise appearance by director Bong Joon-ho and announced the start of the festival. Bong, who was prepared as a "secret weapon" by the Cannes Film Festival, secretly keeping the attendance until the day of the Awards, mentioned last year when the Awards were not held due to Corona 19 at the opening ceremony. "But I do not feel like I was cut off. Film Festival has stopped, but the movie has never stopped. I think that since the train was in the movie of the Rumier brothers, Cinema has never stopped on this earth. I believe that the great film makers and artists who gathered here today are proving it. "
Despite the lack of competition, the Film Festival was opened by two Korean filmmakers, Bong Joon-ho, and Lee Byung-hun was recorded as a meaningful Film Festival. Kang-Ho Song, one of the heroes of the parasite, also participated as a judge at the Film Festival. This is the first time that a Korean actor has participated as a Cannes Film Festival judge.
The short film "Mammy," a graduation film by director Yoon Dae-won, a new film director from the Department of Film and Film, who was invited to the Cinema Foundation category this year, was selected as the second of 17 works invited to this section and received a prize money of 11,250 euros (about 15.18 million won). 'Cammy' is a 17-minute short film about the story of transgender who is prostitution on Sowol Road on a hot summer night.
Cannes Film Festival, which started its first event in 1964 with the support of the France government to counter the Venice Film Festival, is the largest Film Festival among the international Film Festivals. Last year, the Cannes Film Festival canceled its offline opening 52 years after 1968, when it canceled its opening due to the May revolution in Paris due to fandemics that shook the world.