Bong Joon-ho’s tragicomic thriller is the dark horse of this year’s
Oscars race. An exquisite piece of storytelling, this is classical film-making at its best
Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is already a success story. Winner of the Palme d’Or, the top prize at the Cannes film festival, as well as best foreign language film at the
Golden Globes – and the richly deserved best cast in a motion picture at the Screen Actors Guild awards – it is now up for six Oscars including best picture. As well as earning a staggering number of garlands, the film is also a bona fide box-office smash, grossing $73m in its native
South Korea and $30m in the United States. Even if Parasite went home empty-handed, it’d still have plenty to be proud of.
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