Okja looks to be the highlight of Netflix's movie year
AS THE battle waged regarding Netflix’s right to show movies in the Cannes competition, the streaming giant brought in some of the festival’s biggest stars to talk up their films. Even if Dustin Hoffman missed out on a prize, the 79-year-old actor is being touted for an Oscar nomination for his work in Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories; while in Okja, a hippopotamus-sized pig and a 13-year-old year Korean girl steal the show from the likes of Tilda Swinton and Jake Gyllenhaal.
A mix of monster movie, coming-of-age fable, and satire on the GM food industry, Okja stars An Seo Hyun as Mija, a 14-year-old orphan living with her grandfather in the mountainous South Korean countryside where her only friend is the cute and cuddly Okja, one of 27 super-sized pigs engineered by the Mirando Corporation.
