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PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 28 May 2019
Bong d’Or: Korean director wins Cannes’ top prize

By JAKE COYLE by a fundamentalist imam.
Associated Press The third-place jury prize,
CANNES, France (AP) — presented by Michael
South Korean director Bong Moore, was split between
Joon-ho’s raucous social two socially conscious thrill-
satire “Parasite,” about a ers: The French director Ladj
poor family of hustlers who Ly’s feature-film debut “Les
find jobs with a wealthy Miserables” and Brazilian
family, won the Cannes director Kleber Mendonça
Film Festival’s top award, Filho’s “Bacurau.”
the Palme d’Or, on Satur- Ly has called his film an
day. alarm bell about youths
The win for “Parasite” marks living in the housing proj-
the first Korean film to ever ects of Paris’ suburbs. Filho
win the Palme. In the festi- viewed his feverish, violent
val’s closing ceremony, jury Western about a rural Bra-
president Alejandro Inarritu zilian community defend-
said the choice had been ing itself from a hard-to-
“unanimous” for the nine- comprehend invasion as a
person jury. reflection of President Jair
The genre-mixing film, Bolsonaro’s Brazil.
Bong’s seventh, had ar- British actress Emily Bee-
guably been celebrat- Director Bong Joon-ho poses with the Palme d’Or award for the film ‘Parasite’ during a photo call cham won best actress for
ed more than others at following the awards ceremony at the 72nd international film festival, Cannes, southern France, her performance in Jessica
Cannes this year, hailed by Saturday, May 25, 2019. Hausner’s science-fiction
critics as the best yet from Associated Press drama “Little Joe.” The jury
the 49-year-old director of ent genres, speaking in a crisis from the perspective Chen Kaige’s “Farewell My also gave a special men-
“Snowpiercer” and “Okja.” funny, humorous and ten- of Senegalese women left Concubine.” tion to Palestinian director
“It’s the 100th anniversary der way of no judgement behind after many young Best actor went to Antonio Elia Suleiman’s “It Must Be
of the cinema in Korea of something so relevant men flee by sea to Spain. Banderas for Pedro Almo- Heaven.”
this year. To celebrate the and urgent and so global,” Sylvester Stallone present- dovar’s reflective drama The Camera d’Or, an
100th anniversary of the Inarritu told reporters after ed the honor. “Pain and Glory.” In the award given for best first
Korean cinema, I think the the ceremony. Although few quibbled film, one of the most broad- feature from across all of
Cannes Film Festival has of- Many of the awards on Sat- with the choice of “Para- ly acclaimed of the festival, Cannes’ sections, went to
fered me a very great gift,” urday were given to social site,” some had expected Banderas plays a fictional- César Díaz’s “Our Mothers,”
Bong told reporters after and political stories that Cannes to make history by ized version of Almodovar a drama about the Guate-
the ceremony. depicted geopolitical dra- giving the Palme to a fe- looking back on his life and malan civil war in the 1980s.
It was the second straight mas in localized tales, from male filmmaker for just the career. The ceremony Satur-
Palme victory for an Asian African shores to Paris sub- second time. Celine Sciam- “The best is still to come,” day brought to a close a
director. Last year, the urbs. ma’s period romance “Por- said Banderas, accepting Cannes Film Festival riven
award went to Japanese The festival’s second place trait of a Lady on Fire” was the award. by concerns for its own rel-
filmmaker Hirokazu Kore- award, the Grand Prize, the Palme pick for many The Belgian brothers Jean- evancy. It had to contend,
eda’s “Shoplifters,” also a went to French-Senega- critics this year. Instead, Pierre and Luc Dardenne, most formidably, with the
compassionate parable lese director Mati Diop’s Sciamma ended up with who have already twice cultural force of “Game of
about an impoverished feature-film debut, “Atlan- best screenplay. won the Palme d’Or, took Thrones,” which conclud-
family. tics.” The film by Diop, the In the festival’s 72-year his- the best director prize for ed during the festival. The
“We shared the mystery of first black female direc- tory, only Jane Campion “Young Ahmed,” their por- continuing rise of streaming
the unexpected way this tor ever in competition in has won the prize in 1993 trait of Muslim teenager was also a constant subject
film took us through differ- Cannes, views the migrant for “The Piano,” tying with who becomes radicalized around Cannes.q

New novel ‘Love Actually’ meets the horoscopes

By RASHA MADKOUR story of Justine and Nick, Aquarius entries to nudge a Skype relationship with
Associated Press astrology skeptic and be- Nick into realizing his feel- someone on the other
“Star-Crossed: A Novel” liever, childhood friends ings for her. side of the world.
(Crown), by Minnie Darke who recently reunited. Needless to say, it doesn’t It also includes a terrier/
A journalist once consid- Justine is baffled by Nick’s quite work out as she in- frequent animal shelter
ered adjusting her news- faith in his horoscope: “I tends. escapee whose inner
paper’s horoscope to just think that if you want What follows is a “Love thoughts readers are privy
help an astrology-devot- to play Romeo, you should Actually”-esque menag- to, to this reader’s dismay.
ed friend. play Romeo. erie of interconnected The way their tales all sat-
She didn’t do it, but in her You don’t have to twist characters and subplots. isfyingly tie together in the
new novel, Minnie Darke the words of some star- The colorful figures include end brings to mind the
imagines what happens gazing nut to give yourself a jilted singer-songwriter; butterfly effect — the way
when her lovesick pro- permission.” a divorced oncologist small events can have sig-
tagonist acts on the same When she later gains ac- dating a male midwife; a nificant consequences.
impulse she had. cess to the horoscopes widow with an extensive In all, “Star-Crossed” is a
The result is an escapist This cover image released by at the newspaper where collection of commemo- light, fun read, with a cre-
Crown shows “Star-Crossed:
delight. A Novel” by Minnie Darke. she works, Justine gets rative Charles and Diana ative spin on a winning
“Star-Crossed” tells the Associated Press the idea to tinker with the wedding china who is in rom-com formula.q