Cannes Film Festival: 'Hope' Receives Standing Ovation

“Hope” — an extremely ambitious blockbuster hopeful about an alien invasion in a sleepy South Korean mountain town — jolted the Cannes Film Festival awake on Sunday night with a 6-minute ovation. Directed by Na Hong-jin, the big-budget epic combined a gritty survival story an

Much has been written about this year’s Cannes Film Festival being ignored by studios and crowd-pleasing blockbuster type movies, in favor of the more familiar auteur driven quieter films. Well, fasten your seat belts. Cannes just unveiled Hope, a sci fi Alien monster mash from South Korean di

Filmmaker Na Hong-Jin’s in Competition sci-fi thriller Hope received a seven-minute standing ovation in Cannes this evening. Na praised the audience for staying with his two hour and forty minute epic alien thriller. During the premiere screening, at least three incredible action set-pieces drew exu