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BONG JOON HO
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Feature
This film was released on the 26th of August 2020, and is no longer screening. A special Black and White version of the four-time Oscar winner; this special transfer was overseen by director Bong Joon Ho and offers the lustrous contrasts of monochrome. Inveterate grafter Kim Ki-taek (Song Kang-ho) and his family are penniless and unemployed. Cramped into a tiny, bug-infested semi-basement apartment in a dilapidated neighbourhood, they subsist on a meagre stipend earned by folding pizza boxes. Opportunity knocks when his teenage son Ki-woo (Choi Woo-shik) is hired to be the private English tutor for Da-hye, the daughter of Mr Park, a wealthy corporate CEO who lives in a vast, gleaming modernist house with his somewhat distracted wife and spoiled son. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and four Oscars (including a historic Best Picture win), Parasite confounds expectations, beginning as a knockabout farce before delving into much darker territory. An excoriating, pitch-black comedy that lays bare the inequalities of Southern Korean society with a gleeful sense of mischief. Notes by David O’Mahony
BLUE MOON 20.30
DIE MY LOVE 13.10
FROM THE VAULTS: CRIMINAL CONVERSATION 18.00
HORSESHOE 16.10, 20.50
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT 13.40, 18.15 (OC)
L’ATALANTE 16.00
PILLION 15.50, 20.40
SUNSET BOULEVARD (75th ANNIVERSARY RE-RELEASE) 13.30
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