Description
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A multiple Oscar winner—and the first non-English language film to win Best Picture—Bong Joon Ho’s masterpiece is a pitch-black comedy-thriller that lays bare Korea’s yawning class divide.
Bong regular Song Kang-ho plays Kim Ki-taek, patriarch of a poor family who schemes to get them all hired by the rich but clueless Park Dong-ik (Lee Sun-kyun) to work in his family’s palatial mansion under false identities. But their plan begins to unravel when the Parks' former housekeeper catches on and threatens to expose them. The result is, according to A.O. Scott of The New York Times, “wildly entertaining, the kind of smart, generous, aesthetically energized movie that obliterates the tired distinctions between art films and popcorn movies.”
As visually stunning as it is expertly plotted, Parasite is filled with standout performances and is well worth experiencing (or reexperiencing) on the big screen.
(Dir.: Bong Joon Ho, Korea, 2019, 132 min., DCP, Korean with English subtitles)
Generous support for this program is provided by the National Museum of Korea.
Image courtesy of Neon Rated
Cost
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Accessibility & Accommodations
Assisted listening devices, Captioning, Wheelchair accessible
