Film
Parasite
- Director
- Bong Joon-ho
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 132 mins
South Korean director Bong Joon-ho‘s universally acclaimed follow-up to the likes of The Host and Snowpiercer arrived laden down with awards, including the Palme d’Or at Cannes. It also topped many critics’ 2019 films of the year lists and subsequently became the surprise big winner at the Oscars.
Essentially a tightly plotted Hitchcockian home invasion flick with lashings of stinging social satire, it’s the story of an impecunious Seoul family who infiltrate a super-rich one. The Parks are absolutely loaded, being the epitome of aspirational wealth. The Kims don’t have a pot to piss in, but are blessed with plenty of cunning and set about making themselves indispensable to the Parks. As Variety‘s critic observed: “Bong is back and on brilliant form, but he is unmistakably, roaringly furious, and it registers because the target is so deserving, so enormous, so 2019: Parasite is a tick fat with the bitter blood of class rage.” Go here for our review.
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