Bong Hits: The Films of Bong Joon-ho
We’re revisiting the acclaimed genre-bending works of master director Bong Joon-ho in our BONG HITS season, alongside the much-anticipated release of MICKEY 17. Blending social commentary with thrilling narratives, the South Korean director explores class disparity, environment and human nature in twisting and exemplary framed cinematic visions. Entertaining and thought provoking in equal measure, his career in cinema is one of the driving forces of the South Korean cultural wave, alongside the success of his peers through cultural hits like SQUID GAME.
About Bong Joon-ho
Born in 1969 in Daegu, Bong is the winner of three Oscars and has enjoyed success from his darkly comedic, visionary career. With a major Palme d’Or win for PARASITE, he has consistently led the charge for East Asian cultural breakthroughs in the West.
MICKEY 17
Adapted from the acclaimed recent sci-fi novel MICKEY 7, this whipsmart, typically socially relevant, comedy follows an entertaining Robert Pattinson. His character, an expendable, is a disposable clone worker whose body regenerates upon death. A delightful space oddity.
MEMORIES OF MURDER
Two detectives grapple with a string of serial murders in this noirish epic, often ranked among the greatest procedural films of all time. Interwoven with social satire and finding its cast of characters in situations of desperation and struggle – this is a darkly funny but thrilling saga.
SNOWPIERCER
CAPTAIN AMERICA star Chris Evans stars in this visionary sci-fi following a constantly moving train that circumnavigates a post-climate crisis world. With the lower class confined to the back, and the front travelling in unending luxury – the (s)train barrels on as an international cast grapple with their place in the remaining world.
PARASITE
The layers of society are unpicked in this amusing, brutal and surprising thriller that follows a family of con-artists attempt to shoe horn their way into an upper class family’s comfortable existence. Simultaneously urgent and universally relevant, its ambition and cinematic eye find a master of the medium operating at his most razor sharp.
