Cannes Film Festival head honcho Thierry Frémaux often likes to speak of the “Cannes family,” meaning the extended stable of international auteurs whom the festival helped discover, nurtured and has made regulars on the famed red-carpet steps of the Palais des Festivals. Today’s standard-bearer for Japan’s great tradition of humanist filmmaking in Cannes is undoubtedly Hirokazu Kore-eda, whose features have been included in the festival’s official selection seven times, a record for his home country. Incidentally, the leitmotif of Kore-eda’s work is also family — families broken, families in turmoil and families found. His most celebrated films at Cannes have all centered on the theme, albeit in various and inventive ways.
Like Father, Like Son, winner of the 2013 Cannes jury prize, told the story of two boys mistakenly switched at birth, the discovery of which — years later — confronts the parents with the agonizing decision of whether to...
Like Father, Like Son, winner of the 2013 Cannes jury prize, told the story of two boys mistakenly switched at birth, the discovery of which — years later — confronts the parents with the agonizing decision of whether to...
- 5/18/2023
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Squid Game is a winner for Netflix.
Building on its reportedly solid initial launch, the Korean series about 456 people who are lured into playing (incredibly) deadly versions of children’s games now stands as the streaming giant’s most sampled debut ever, having reached 111 million accounts less than a month after its release. (Netflix counts two minutes of any program as a “view.”)
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Building on its reportedly solid initial launch, the Korean series about 456 people who are lured into playing (incredibly) deadly versions of children’s games now stands as the streaming giant’s most sampled debut ever, having reached 111 million accounts less than a month after its release. (Netflix counts two minutes of any program as a “view.”)
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- 10/12/2021
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
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