mot-stephane

Always in for disruptive animation, weird bits, and unsettling scenarii. Yet if this House is wonderfully crafted, it wasn't up to my expectations. And if these stories have interesting foundations, you'd expect a more original architecture and finishing.

Upon arrival in Cuba for his first visit, a Korean American lawyer on holidays discovers members of the country's Korean diaspora. Joseph Junh decides to make a documentary about the key figure of their family and the revolution, Jeronimo Lim, without realizing that he's starting a journey that will forever change the way many people, starting with himself, perceive their own identity, and their responsibilities towards fellow humans.

A fascinating, fundamental work of and on art, perfectly thought, written, printed. Sharp and clinical, yet poetic and sincere.

A beautiful object (not only for the photography), and a conceptual tour de force: imagine Terry Gilliam filming himself "Lost in La Mancha" by filming himself at at the same time writing / filming / performing the autopsy of a yet to be started movie (wrapped between what could have been its first and last sequences).

Bong Joon-ho's Parasite is perfectly written, filmed, and played - a bit too much at times (did we need this Ri Chun-hee's impersonation, or was that a bonus for Western audiences?).

No spoilers, but you're forced to understand the gimchi will somehow hit the fan, to want to know, among all possible worst case scenarios, which one will prevail, and to enjoy the ever darker humor first permeating, then overflowing this over the top gem.

If this brilliant epic echoes Im Sang-soo's 'The Housemaid' & Kim Ki-duk's '3 iron', Bong remains a league of his own.

This remake completely shifts tables: while in the original 'Housemaid', the husband fell victim to an evil seducer, in Im Sang-su's social satire aims he is the bad guy, a bourgeois corrupting everything around him.