Screening of Bong Joon Ho's 'Parasite' (2019) at Volcano Theatre, Swansea's independent art house on High Street.
Volcano Theatre is screening Bong Joon Ho's Parasite on Wednesday 28 October, part of the Volcano Film Club. It's the 2019 South Korean film that made a massive run at the Oscars, and if you've only heard the buzz but haven't actually sat through it, this is a good chance to catch it on the big screen.
It's described as a pitch-black modern fairytale set in South Korea, and that's a fair way to put it. The story follows two families: the Parks, who are the picture of aspirational wealth, and the Kims, who are rich in street smarts but little else. The Kim children, led by the college-aged Ki-woo, manage to install themselves as a tutor and an art therapist to the Parks, and a symbiotic relationship forms between the two families. That holds until a parasitic interloper threatens the Kims' newfound comfort and a savage battle for dominance breaks out. It's called darkly hilarious and heart-wrenching, and it does a lot of heavy lifting across both those moods.
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The screening is at Volcano Theatre, 27-29 High Street, Swansea's independent Art Haus on High Street. It's the home of the Volcano Theatre Company, and the building houses a theatre, a cinema, a gallery, a bar and a community space, so it's a proper hub for what goes on there. The film starts at 7pm.
