South Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s dark social satire/thriller Parasite won the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize, the Palme d’Or.
It’s the first time a Korean director has won the award, and jury president Alejandro González Iñárritu said the jury was unanimous.
First-time French-Senegalese feature filmmaker Mati Diop — the actress known for roles in Claire Denis’s 35 Shots of Rum and American indies like L for Leisure and Fort Buchanan had previously directed shorts and a medium-length documentary — won the festival’s second prize, the Grand Prix, for her Atlantics.
It’s a magic-realistic-tinged tale of women left behind in Senegal […]
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