“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.

Hope stunned Cannes 2026 with a 6-minute standing ovation as Na Hong-jin’s Korean monster movie shocked audiences with alien chaos and action.

Shrishty is a decade-old journalist covering a variety of beats between politics to pop culture, but movies are her first love, which led her to study Film and TV Development at UCLAx. She lives and ...