“Platforms don’t matter to me,” Park says.
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Park - whose work has been seen in both traditional venues and streaming platforms (his “Little Drummer Girl” series was an original for BBC One, but streamed on Amazon) - believes in the theatrical experience “because the audience gets to see it at the optimum conditions,” but he says, “I will not avoid any” streamers. Speaking to Variety with his English translator, Park says, “I’m totally fine with that because it was me who made everyone expect that kind of thing from me…they were not forced to think that way…I was the one.” At a press conference in Cannes, one journalist asked about the lack of violence and sex. Some critics were surprised that “Decision to Leave” is less violent and graphic than his past work. (In the film, Tang’s character speaks Chinese and a form of Korean that is described as particularly formal, due to the character having learned the language as a foreigner.) And so, her role and the language her character speaks was written specifically for the Chinese actress to mirror her real life. When he conceived the film, he always had Tang in mind as his female lead, before casting her male co-star.
“Decision to Leave,” which stars Tang Wei and Park Hae-il, was initially inspired by a Korean pop song that Park Chan-wook loved when he was a young boy. “The fact that the audience has been distancing themselves from the cinemas now I can finally present my film to those audiences, that’s quite something very special and I’m filled with emotions.”
“After going through that long tunnel of the pandemic, that means a lot more to me than being here after six years,” the director tells Variety, in conversation at the Variety Studio presented by Campari at the Cannes Film Festival.
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