Bong Joon-ho’s Palme d'Or-winning Parasite gets a quirky, disquieting new trailer
We called it at Cannes and we were right: Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite took home the Palme d’Or, a prize the genre-bending gut-punch most assuredly deserved. The film quickly nabbed a U.S. release date via Neon, and, though we had to wait a few months, a trailer has now arrived.
It focuses on the Kim family, who scrape by in a filthy hovel until Ki-woo (Choi Woo-shik) lucks into a job tutoring the daughter (Jung Ziso) of the well-off Park clan. Soon, he’s manipulating the family to secure more jobs for his sister (Park So-dam), his mother (Chang Hyae-jin), and his father (Kang-ho Song). “For its first hour or so, Parasite is pure diabolical fun: a kind of con-artist story where the con is turning one-percenters into unwitting job creators,” we wrote in our review. Soon, though, it “shifts tonal gears in total service of its class politics, infecting the film’s breezy dark-comedy with notes of rage and melancholy.”