“Let’s just say it: the South Korean auteur Bong Joon Ho is some kind of genius and he tops himself with ‘Parasite’-it’s explosive filmmaking on every level and one of the cinema high points of 2019 . You won’t know what hit you.
2020 Academy Awards® Best International Feature Film – Official Selection of Korea
Jan 6 Parasite
(Gisaengchung)
2019 South Korea 2hr 12min
Drama Rated R (for language, some violence)
In Korean with English Subtitles
Bong Joon Ho brings his work home to Korea in this pitch-black modern fairy tale. Meet the Park Family: the picture of aspirational wealth. And the Kim Family, rich in street smarts but not much else. Be it chance or fate, these two houses are brought together and the Kims sense a golden opportunity. Masterminded by college-aged Ki-woo, the Kim children expediently install themselves as tutor and art therapist, to the Parks. Soon, a symbiotic relationship forms between the two families. The Kims provide “indispensable” luxury services while the Parks obliviously bankroll their entire household. When a….
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“Parasite” begins in exhilaration and ends in devastation, but the triumph of the movie is that it fully lives and breathes at every moment, even when you might find yourself struggling to exhale.”
– Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
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2019 Guatemala 1hr 47min
Drama NR (for language, some violence and sexual content)
In Spanish with English Subtitles
2020 Academy Awards® Best International Feature Film – Official Selection of Guatemala
In this deeply personal followup to his landmark debut Ixcanul, Jayro Bustamante shifts his focus from rural Guatemala to the denizens of Guatemala City but once again set his sights on an individual caught between two seeming irreconcilable worlds.
When handsome and charismatic Pablo arrives at his affluent family’s house everyone is eagerly awaiting the return of their beloved son, devoted father and caring husband. A seemingly exemplary pillar of Guatemala City’s Evangelical Christian community, Pablo’s announcement that he intends to leave his wife for another man sends shock waves through the family. As Pablo tries to acclimate to his new life in the city’s gay subculture with the liberated Francisco, his ultra-religious family does everything in its power to get their prodigal son back on track, no matter the cost.
“There are any number of movies about gay men trying to liberate themselves from the long shadow of heteronormative oppression…but few have been told with the extraordinary nuance or compassion of Jayro Bustamante’s “Tremors.” – David Ehrlich, indieWire