No Other Choice Review: Is Park Chan-Wook Satire a New Parasite?

No Other Choice Review — Grotesque, Hilarious, Devastating Look at the Madness of Late-Stage Capitalism

No Other Choice was the last of the festival’s most anticipated titles on my list. As a long-time fan of Park Chan-wook (Oldboy), there’s always an intoxicating energy associated with his creations. However, although the Korean director’s previous feature, Decision to Leave, was a critical and cult phenomenon for most people, I admit I didn’t fall in love with the film in the same way. Therefore, the anticipation for this new project was twofold…

No Other Choice review: Is Park Chan-wook satire a new Parasite?

You could make a case for Park Chan-wook having the most absurdly varied CV of any living director. Coming to international attention in 2003 with cult classic revenge movie Oldboy, his oeuvre includes steamy psychological thriller Stoker, disturbing erotica The Handmaiden and romantic neo-noir Decision to Leave. Next up is No Other Choice, a sprawling, pitch-black farce that starts out as a corporate satire and morphs into something so singular…

'No Other Choice' pioneers new approach to breaking even in Korea's struggling film industry

From the moment the Lumière brothers charged audiences for the first film screening at the Le Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris 1895, cinema has lived by a simple rule — a film that cannot make money cannot survive.