‘Hope’ Unleashes a Bats— Loopy Korean Monster Film on Cannes and Earns 6-Minute Standing Ovation
“Hope” — an especially bold blockbuster hopeful about an alien invasion in a sleepy South Korean mountain city — jolted the Cannes Film Festival awake on Sunday night time with a 6-minute ovation. Directed by Na Hong-jin, the big-budget epic mixed a gritty survival story and an authentic sci-fi mythology — nobody fairly knew what […]

