'Parasite' director Bong Joon Ho on the acclaim, awards and expectations that have people buzzing about his twisty, masterful new thriller.
Two very different families collide in Bong Joon Ho’s masterful thriller, which will represent South Korea in this year’s Oscar race.
Resolution is not something Bong might expect to gain from any of the films he makes, but that doesn’t stop him from using them to exorcise the modern anxieties that plague him. Deliciously entertaining genre blenders, his stories tend toward cutting, witty and ultimately humane social critique, twisty puzzle boxes that reflect our world back to us.
In his fourth film with director Bong, Song Kang Ho plays Ki-taek, the downtrodden patriarch of the Kim family. Neither he, his former shot put-champ wife Chung-sook or their grown children, Ki-woo and Ki-jung can land a steady job, sharing a cramped sub-basement apartment at the geographical and metaphorical rock-bottom of town.
After starring in Bong Joon Ho’s 2003 film “Memories of Murder,” actor Song Kang Ho reunited with the director in three more films: “The Host” , “Snowpiercer” and “Parasite” . When we first meet for a coffee in the lobby of a swanky Toronto hotel, Bong has recently screened “Parasite” to resounding raves at the, a mountain enclave of elite cinephilia. “But it was mostly industry people,” he said.
The answer: Pretty auspiciously. Later that night, “Parasite” will play just as powerfully to viewers at the. After a quick trip back home to Seoul, Bong will return to the U.S. to see evidence of the film’s crossover potential as it plays, again to the rafters, with the genre-obsessed crowds at Austin’s Fantastic Fest and L.A.'s Beyond Fest, and then at the highbrow New York Film Festival.
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