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Parasite

Horizons 2019 / Gisaengchung / South Korea 2019

The four-member Kim family lives in a small, run-down flat and is constantly struggling with money. Recommended by a friend, son Ki-Woo gets a chance to work for the rich Park family, and he starts putting together a grand plan… Bong’s masterful genre interplay, with its strong social message, unpredictable narrative, and skillfully paced, darkly comic scenes, deservedly earned the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes IFF.

Parasite Parasite

Synopsis

The four-member Kim family lives in a small, run-down flat and is constantly struggling with money. Recommended by a friend, son Ki-Woo gets a chance to work at a luxurious villa as a tutor for the daughter of the rich Park family, and he starts putting together a grand plan… After two years, Korean director Bong Joon-ho returned to the competition at Cannes with a film that he called “a comedy without clowns, a tragedy without villains.” Bong’s masterful genre interplay, with its strong social message, unpredictable narrative, and skillfully paced, darkly comic scenes, deservedly earned the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes IFF.

Lenka Tyrpáková

About the film

132 min / Color, DCP

Director Bong Joon-ho / Screenplay Bong Joon-ho, Han Jin-won / Dir. of Photography Hong Kyung-pyo / Music Jaeil Jung / Editor Yang Jinmo / Art Director Lee Ha-jun / Producer Bong Joon-ho, Kwak Sin-ae, Jang Young-wan / Production CJ Entertainment Inc. / Coproduction Barunson E&A Corp / Cast Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam, Lee Jung-eun, Chang Hyae-jin / Sales CJ Entertainment Inc. / Distributor Aerofilms

About the director

Bong Joon-ho

Bong Joon-ho (b.1969, Daegu, South Korea) Filmography: Barking Dogs Never Bite (Peullandaseuui gae, 2000), Memories of Murder (Salinui chueok, 2003), The Host (Goimoo, 2006), “Shaking Tokyo" (2008, segment from Tokyo!), Mother (Madeo, 2009), Snowpiercer (Seolgug yeolcha, 2013), Okja (2017), Parasite (Gisaengchung, 2019)


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Milady Horákové 383/79, 170 00, Praha 7
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Phone: +420 224 947 566
E-mail: [email protected]

CJ Entertainment Inc.
26th Fl., Parnas Tower 521, Teheran-ro, 06 164, Seoul
Korea (Democratic People's Republic of)
E-mail: [email protected]

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