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Acclaimed South Korean manager Park Chan-wook volition caput the main contention assemblage astatine the 79th Cannes Film Festival, marking the archetypal clip a Korean filmmaker has been appointed to the role.
Park and his assemblage volition grant the 2026 Palme d'Or connected May 23 astatine the Grand Théâtre Lumiere, the festival organisers announced successful a statement.
Last year's honour was presented by Juliette Binoche to Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi for It Was Just an Accident.
“Park Chan-wook‘s inventiveness, ocular mastery, and penchant for capturing the aggregate impulses of women and men with unusual destinies person fixed modern cinema immoderate genuinely memorable moments,” Cannes festival president Iris Knobloch and manager Thierry Frémaux said successful a statement.
“We are delighted to observe his immense endowment and, much broadly, the cinema of a state profoundly engaged with the questioning of our time.” Park's narration with Cannes dates backmost to 2004, erstwhile Old Boy won the Grand Prix. He has since earned aggregate honours astatine the festival, including the Jury Prize for Thirst (2009) and Best Director for Decision to Leave (2022).
Known for visceral, subversive storytelling, Park is often compared to filmmakers specified arsenic Quentin Tarantino, Brian De Palma and David Fincher. He has cited Alfred Hitchcock, Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman and Luchino Visconti arsenic cardinal influences.
His latest movie was 2025's No Other Choice, is simply a satirical instrumentality connected the pursuit of occurrence successful Korean capitalist society.
He is champion known internationally for his Vengeance trilogy, which includes Sympathy for Mister Vengeance (2002), Old Boy (2004) and Lady Vengeance (2005).
The 79th Cannes Film Festival is scheduled to beryllium held from May 12 to 23.
