Arte releases Parasite, a record movie!

Presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019, the Bong Joon Ho parasite caused a sensation and won the precious Golden Palm RTO for the 72nd edition, the final award for this major cinematic event. But this award, after him and the movie “Life” in cinemas, allowed him to set a number of records.

First, the film is part of a highly selected club that won the Palme d’Or and the Oscar for Best Picture at the Cannes Film Festival. He shares this rare honor with two classic Hollywood features: The Poison was released in 1945 and Marty, starring Ernest Borgnain, was released in 1955.

Then, this is the first film from Korea to be awarded the Palme d’Or and can boast of being the Palme d’Or for having received the most participation in France since 2004 and after its release. Michael Moore Fahrenheit 9/11 2.36 million tickets sold.

It is also the first foreign language film to win an Oscar for Best Picture and Best International Film (formerly called the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film) and the only film after The Departed (2006) to win an Oscar without Best Picture. Received a nomination for Best Cinematography.

Eventually, it grossed, 11.1 million on UK soil, making it the highest-grossing foreign language film in the UK and grossing $ 53.36 million on U.S. soil, which is a significant amount of foreign film.

Today, Bong Joon Ho is very busy making an animated film and an English-language sci-fi movie in which Robert Pattinson could play.

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