- “Parasite” has been covered with awards since its Palme d'Or last May.
- The film is distributed in color and then in black and white.
- This very dark comedy corresponds well to the filmography of its director.
Did you like Parasite de Bong Joon-ho, a cruel tale that won the Palme d'Or and four Oscars, or have not yet discovered it? Its release in theaters in an amazing black and white version and the distribution of a collector's box on February 28 provide excellent opportunities to see or review the work of the South Korean director.
“I have a vivid imagination, confided the filmmaker to 20 Minutes when The Host was released in 2006. I love cinema so much that I take pleasure in mixing all genres. Since this film where he released an aquatic monster in Seoul, the filmmaker, discovered in France with Memories of Murder (2003), has refined this recipe with lively enthusiasm. 20 Minutes returns to the colors that make the specificity of its cinema.
Black goes with everything
From Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000), his first feature film in which a young man freaked out after hearing his neighbor's dog barking at Parasite , the director has always taken pleasure in denouncing the darkness of the soul human. In Memories of Murder , the cop is almost as crazy as the murderer he is chasing. And we would not entrust her kids to the overprotective mother of Mother (2009). "Nice people don't fascinate me as much as those who have an empty box" confided Bong Joon-ho at the time of the release of this film.
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Red suits him so well
A little blood always shakes the spectator in the fights of the science fiction film Snowpiercer (2013), spectacular adaptation of the Transperceneige . Red is also in the spotlight in the slaughterhouses of Okja where an adorable transgenic sow risks ending up in sausage meat. A family celebration also turns carmine in Parasite . As for the cannibal monster of The Host , it eats rather dirty. "I have nothing against gore because it always produces its small effect on the public," admitted Bong Joon-ho in 2006.
Yellow like the spectator's laugh
The filmmaker's black humor can make you see red or make you laugh yellow! "What matters to me is the element of surprise," he told us in Cannes last May. I have only one fear, that the spectator is bored. This is also why I like to use provocative humor. This method, which he used as well in The Host as in Okja, is particularly developed for Parasite where laughter often strangles in the throat during the settling of scores of two families fighting over a house.
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