Bong Joon-ho's PARASITE held its world premiere at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival where it became the first Korean film to win the Palme d'Or – and with a unanimous vote. And has since snagged a stellar 99% approval rating over on Rotten Tomatoes. And it looks like the praise for THE HOST, MOTHER, and SNOWPIERCER director Bong Joon-ho's South Korean black comedy thriller masterpiece keeps on coming as today we have word from former President of the United States himself Barrack Obama that the film is one of his favorites of 2019.
He tweets:
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Bong Joon Ho brings his work home to Korea in this pitch-black modern fairytale which tells the tale of
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 parasitic interloper threatens the Kims' newfound comfort, a savage, underhanded battle for dominance breaks out, threatening to destroy the fragile ecosystem between the Kims and the Parks.
PARASITE is directed by Bong Joon-ho from a screenplay he co-wrote with Han Jin-won. The film stars Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik and Park So-dam. It's rated R for language, some violence, and sexual content and will be released on Blu-ray on January 28, 2020.