According to a report by Yonhap News Agency on May 19, on the night of the 18th, after the end subtitles of the Korean film "Cry" screened at the Cannes Film Festival were released, the audience stood up and applauded. Several French film critics spoke highly of the film, with film critic Vincent Malusa praising Cry as the film of the year.
When the camera on the big screen is aimed at the Japanese actor Hayabusa Kunimura, he poses in a meaningful photo pose in the film to push the applause to a climax. Hayabusa Kunimura, who appeared in a Korean film for the first time and visited Cannes for the first time, played a foreigner in the film, and the English name of the film is "THE STRANGER", which shows that his role is not small.
Nearly 7 minutes of applause and cheers made the protagonist Guo Duyuan, who also visited Cannes for the first time, blush, and Guo Duyuan, who played the policeman Zhong Jiu in the film, also hugged his girlfriend Zhang Suyan, who sat in the back row, and the two played husband and wife in the film. Chun Woo-hee, who plays the nameless family, is also coming to Cannes for the first time, but he can calmly greet the audience. Director Luo Hongzhen shouted loudly when he exited the scene in the midst of endless applause, and he was overjoyed. Guo Duyuan also shouted "thank you" in English to thank the audience for their love.
"Crying" began screening at about 10 p.m. that day, and the first 2 hours were tense but relaxed to tell mysterious stories, and the director's interspersed humor filled the cultural gap and amused foreign audiences from time to time. However, in the last 20 minutes of the film, the plot unfolds like a storm, and the explosion of contradictions and conflicts makes the audience hold their breath and keep their eyes fixed.
Vincent Malusa, a film critic for France's Film Handbook magazine, posted on social networking sites praising Cry as the film of the year. Film critic Bastian Mezhessona commented that this is one of the most beautiful films he has seen in his life, and judging from the recent situation in the Korean film industry, it is the bravest film that touches on politically sensitive topics. But some viewers complained that the characters in the film were pushed into an extreme state of hysteria, and the casting criteria seemed to be whether they could cry out for 15 minutes in one breath.