Parasite is a new film by the Korean filmmaker Bong Joon- ho. It will premiere this weekend and it has already won the Palme d’Or.
So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about this film!
- Parasite is a 2019 South Korean dark comedy thriller film
- It is directed by Bong Joon-ho
- The film stars Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik and Park So-dam
- Parasite had its world premiere at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival on 21 May 2019
- There it won the Palme d’Or
- Becoming the first Korean film to receive the award
- And the first film to win with a unanimous vote since 2013’s Blue Is the Warmest Colour
- It was selected as the South Korean entry for Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards
- Principal photography began on 18 May 2018
- And ended 77 days later, on 19 September 2018
- The film had its world premiere at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival on 21 May 2019
- It was released in South Korea on 30 May 2019
- Neon acquired the North American rights to the film at the American Film Market (AFM) 2018
- The film’s rights were also pre-sold to German-speaking territories (Koch Films), French-speaking territories (The Jokers Films) and Japan (Bitters End)
- It is scheduled to be released in Russia on 4 July 2019
- And in the United States on 11 October 2019
- The film was originally scheduled to be screened as a closing film at FIRST Internationl Film Festival Xining in China on 28 July 2019
- But on 27 July, the film festival organizers announced that the screening was cancelled for “technical reasons”
- Parasite earned US $20.8 million during its opening weekend in South Korea
- It has since grossed a total of $70.9 million from South Korea
- And $19.2 million from other territories
- For a grand total of $90.1 million
- On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 100%
- Based on 148 reviews
- With an average rating of 9.34/10
- The website’s critical consensus reads, “An urgent, brilliantly layered look at timely social themes, Parasite finds writer-director Bong Joon Ho in near-total command of his craft”
- Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 95 out of 100
- Based on 31 critics
- Indicating “universal acclaim”
