PARASITE

PARASITE (GISAENGCHUNG),2019
South Korea | DCP, Color, 132’ | Korean
Director: Bong Joon-ho
Cast: Kang-ho Song, Yeo-jeong Jo, So-dam Park

Parasite from master director Bong Joon-ho became one of the most talked about films of the year after it won the Palme d’Or at Cannes. As he did in his former films, the director merges a variety of genres such as drama, comedy, violence and suspense with great success in Parasite. This time Joon-ho focuses on the inter-class differences through the interaction of the poor Kim family, who live in difficult conditions in a humid basement, and the wealthy Park family, who live in a luxurious home in prosperity. Kim family’s life is transformed after their son Ki-woo is offered a new job. Ki-woo is to give private English lessons to the daughter of the Park family, and through various tricks, Ki-woo ensures that the rest of his family members are also recruited at the Parks. However, the lives of both families will be transformed and not in the way they expect. Parasite won the Palme d’Or at the 72^nd Cannes Film Festival and the Best Film in a Foreign Language prize at the 77^th Golden Globes.