Cannes 2023: "Monster", Hirokazu Kore-eda talks about the "darkness of the heart" The Japanese director and Palme d'Or of 2018 with A Family Affair returned to the Cannes Film Festival and opened Wednesday, May 18 the competition with Monster. "It's a story where you feel like you're seeing things that, in reality, don't exist," says Kore-Eda.
"I find it very difficult to talk about my work from an objective point of view, to say that it was this thing that led me to do this thing," he adds.