Thirst(Bakjwi)

Selflessly volunteering in a dangerous medical experiment, an idealistic, devout priest is mysteriously transformed into a vampire, who now has to battle the cravings he’s spent a lifetime denying: fresh blood and lust for love. Clinging to human and religious ethics, he tries to meet his survival needs without committing murder, but starts losing his moral grip after falling for his friend’s wife. No short of explicit sex, outrageous gore, and lurid imagery, Park Chan-wook’s revisionist vampire flick is at once a bloodstained horror movie, a pitchblack comedy, a melodrama of mad love, and a noirish psychodrama with a thoughtful take on spirituality, guilt, and redemption.

Cannes Film Festival: Jury Prize