“Parasite,” directed by Bong Joon-Ho, is a comedy that glistens with irony about an elaborate con. The covetous greed of the poor is pitted against the dull indulgence of the wealthy in a manichean duel for supremacy, to realistic effect. Will the world one day see an all-out war between the classes? Occupy Wall Street, the Yellow Vest movement, are those harbingers? These movements have come and ... more >
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CANNES FESTIVAL – The grifter family versus the perfect family in the entertaining PARASITE
This film is competing for the Palme D'Or
Korean cinema : paradox, ideology and cultural exceptionalism
Korea emancipates itself from the Hollywood-imposed orthodoxy to produce vital, first-rate cinema: overview
Korean cinema was born at a time when the peninsula was still under Japanese control (since 1910). It immediately became a tool of resistance, with communists, especially, seizing on this opportunity. Na Un-gyu directed, in 1926, the first known (but since lost) film, “Arirang.” And yet, cinema as we know it today was borne of the civil war (1950-1953), a conflict that resulted in the country ... more >