He made his first trip to Cannes in 2006 with the Directors’ Fortnight selected The Host, and after being selected for the Un Certain Regard for Tokyo! (2008) and Mother (2009), Bong Joon-ho finally got some love after 2013’s Snowpiercer with a comp spot for 2017’s Okja and now, Parasite. South Korean genre-bender stars Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik and Park So-dam. The film revolves around Ki-taek and his unemployed family as they take a peculiar interest in the wealthy Park family, which leads them to get entangled in an unexpected incident.
With several perfect and near perfect scores, Parasite blows the rest of the comp titles away with grades hovering around the 4 mark.
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