Another first time filmmaker to the competition but no stranger to Cannes, South Korean filmmaker Na Hong-jin has showcased 2008’s The Chaser (Midnight Screening), 2010’s The Yellow Sea (Un Certain Regard) and 2016’s The Wailing (Out of Competition) in the past. Perhaps the most costly production of all the offerings, a filmmaker who likes to examine moral collapse under pressure, fear, paranoia and contagion of violence and the limits of rational investigation, for he proposes another mixed bag of genres – this is set in the remote village of Hope Harbor, near the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the community is thrown into chaos when a tiger is suspected to have appeared and local police chief Bum-seok is alerted. But what begins as a local emergency soon spirals into a deeper, more terrifying mystery, one that forces the town’s residents to confront the unknown. Hwang Jung-min, Zo In-sung, Jung Ho-yeon, Taylor Russell, Cameron Britton, Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender star. This is Competition film #12 of 22.
Final film of the day (naturally closer to midnight) Hope blasts into the comp with an average score of 3.1 — some critics who put it at the top of their faves of the fest, while some had lukewarm responses.
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