Bong Joon-ho è forse il miglior regista coreano, più di Kim Ki-duk, di Hong Sang-soo, Lee Chang-dong, Im Sang-soo o di Park Chan-wok.
I suoi film però sono pressochè sconosciuti in Italia. Sono usciti solo in homevideo alcuni, eppure Memories of Murder, Mother e The Host sono tra i film più importanti del decennio, che ha imposto la cinematografia del sud est asiatico come una delle più importanti al mondo.
Bong Joon-ho è stato scelto per guidare la giuria della Camera D’Or al prossimo Festival di Cannes: è il premio alla migliore opera prima.
Director and scriptwriter Bong Joon-ho studied sociology and film before becoming a director. He achieved critical acclaim for his first feature filmBarking Dog (2000). His next, Memories of Murder(2004), which achieved huge public success in Korea (and first prize at the Cognac Police Film Festival), earned him a Best Director Award. The Host, screened in 2006 at the Directors’ Fortnight, finally sealed his international reputation as a director of genre films raised to the level of art.
He was invited to Cannes as part of the Official Selection with Tokyo! (2008), a trilogy on which he worked with Leos Carax and Michel Gondry. In 2009, he presented Mother — an intimate and subtly analytical melodrama about Korean family life —at Un Certain Regard.
As President, Bong Joon-ho follows in the footsteps of Bruno Dumont, Abbas Kiarostami, Pavel Lounguine, Roschdy Zemand Gael Garcia Bernal.
The Caméra d’or is awarded to the best first film presented in the Official Selection (Competition and Un Certain Regard), during Critics’ Week or Directors’ Fortnight.
The prize will be awarded by the President of the Jury at the Closing Ceremony on Sunday 22nd May.
Stanze di Cinema 