Famed Director Park Chan Wook’s New Movie Decision to Leave with Park Hae Il and Tang Wei Receive Rapturous Standing Ovation at Cannes and Contender for Top Prize

Who says awarding winning top K-director Park Chan Wook can’t keep surprising this long into his exceptional career. His first movie in 6 years since The Handmaiden debuted at the Cannes Film Festival this week to thunderous reception, with a 5-minute long standing ovation by the audience after the screening of Decision to Leave. While this movie has thriller elements in that it’s a detective mystery, it’s also described as a romance, and definitely differs from Park Chan Wook’s most famous prior movies including Old Boy, Lady Vengeance, Thirst, and Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance. Leads Park Hae Il and Tang Wei were in attendance with Park Chan Wook at Cannes and the three really lit up the red carpet coming in to remind the world that before K-dramas got majorly big in the last two years it was K-movies that garnered the first toehold into the Western media and audiences.