CANNES, France — Big-budget, alien-centered action blockbusters rarely earn a spot in the official competition for the Cannes Film Festival’s most coveted honor, the Palme d’Or. But South Korean filmmaker Na Hong-jin’s latest project, ‘Hope,’ is far from an ordinary sci-fi feature. A decade in the making, it emerged as one of the most hotly anticipated premieres of this year’s festival, marking the director’s first release since his critically celebrated 2016 thriller *The Wailing*. While other iconic Korean genre filmmakers like Bong Joon Ho have already cemented worldwide fame, many global film lovers have long argued Na is overdue for the widespread international acclaim that only a high-profile Cannes debut can deliver.
The breathless Korean sci-fi monster movie ‘Hope’ leaves the Cannes Film Festival floored
