By way of AFP
CANNES: South Korean big name film-maker Park Chan-wook on Saturday gained the Cannes Movie Competition’s very best director award for his erotic crime film “Determination To Depart”.
Starring Chinese language big name Tang Wei and Korean actor Park Hae-il, “Determination To Depart” tells the tale of a detective who, investigating a person’s deadly fall from a mountain, comes beneath the spell of the sufferer’s spouse, whom he suspects of getting brought about her husband’s dying.
The detective tale increasingly more meshes with the mutual appeal engulfing the principle characters, and the ensuing erotic rigidity this is heightened via the consistent proximity of dying.
“I am not a romantic, however I am very within the expression of feelings,” mentioned Park in an interview with AFP when the movie premiered on the competition.
“Determination To Depart” used to be warmly gained via Cannes audiences. The BBC referred to as it a “cracking romantic mystery” and Display mentioned that “even with out the intense surprise techniques of a few of his previous paintings, Park can craft a deeply enjoyable and probably business mystery”.
The movie’s mesmerising soundtrack contains the Adagietto in Gustav Mahler’s fifth Symphony, immortalised within the 1971 film “Demise In Venice” via Luchino Visconti.
“I attempted to search out different classical items that would paintings, however this piece via Mahler used to be simply supreme,” Park, 58, mentioned. “And I assumed, is there a regulation that claims simplest Visconti will get to make use of this piece? No there is not, so I went forward.”
Park’s Cannes access comes just about twenty years after his “Oldboy” which gained the competition’s second-highest prize in 2004 and helped catapult South Korean cinema onto the worldwide degree — years prior to “Parasite”, which gained the 2019 Palme d’Or and very best movie on the 2020 Oscars.
Park mentioned the movie drew inspiration from the methodical police paintings contained within the Swedish “Martin Beck” crime mystery books. “That is what I sought after to constitute in a film,” he mentioned.