Monday Night Film Series presents PARASITE-FR

Event Details:

The Monday Night Film Series presents an additional screening of the film, Parasite.

This 2019 Cannes Palme d’Or winning film follows the members of a poor household scheming to become the employees of a much wealthier family by posing as unrelated, highly-qualified individuals. 

A glorious success and smashing box-office hit for Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho - who returns home after his foreign adventures in Snowpiercer and Okja - the Palme d’Or- winning Parasite is a politically charged cinematic wonder.

Described by Bong himself as “a comedy without clowns and a tragedy without villains,” the film moves quickly from one tone to another, mixing pathos and satire with thrills and drama in a perfectly controlled blend of many different genres.

A vertical story of class struggle — punctuated by staircase scenes going from mouldy basements to top floors, from darkness to breezy spaces designed by star architects - Parasite observes and dissects with surgical precision the life of two families of different social backgrounds.

Ki-taek (Song Kang-ho, Snowpiercer) is an unemployed patriarch of a family of grifters - his wife Chung-sook (Chang Hyae-jin), his clever twenty-something daughter Ki-jung (Park So-dam), and his son Ki-woo (Choi Woo-shik) - who live in an overcrowded, sordid basement. The Parks, on the other hand, live in a fabulous house with their teenage daughter Da-hye and pampered son Da-song, who has suffered a childhood trauma that occasionally causes him seizures and strange behaviour. When, due to an unexpected stroke of luck, Ki-woo is hired by the Parks to be the private English tutor of Da-hye, the destinies of the two families cross.  Their explosive meeting exposes the merciless evils of class inequalities, culminating in a powerful and utterly original outcome.

"An exhilarating and furious indictment of class struggle, Parasite might be the masterpiece South Korea's Bong Joon-ho has been working toward his entire career." - Barry Hertz, Globe and Mail

This term, 15 limited release, independent foreign amd Canadian films will be shown. Admission is $8/film, but a half-yearly $12 student film society membership reduces admission cost to $5/film. The series is open to all. Memberships are available at Tilley 102 every Monday night.

For further info, contact NB Film Co-op at 455-1632 or info@nbfilmcoop.com.

The NB Film Co-op in partnership with the UNB Faculty of Arts and the Toronto Film Festival presents the series.

Building: Tilley Hall

Room Number: 102