Gisaengchung
(2019)
AKA: Parasite
Country: South Korea
Synopsis
Unemployed Kim Ki-taek lives with his wife Chung-sook, son Ki-woo and daughter Ki-jeong in a shabby semi-basement apartment, where they struggle to make ends meet. When Ki-woo is hired by the wealthy and glamorous Park family to be a tutor to their young daughter, he learns of Mrs. Park's struggle to find an art teacher for her younger child, Da-song, and suggests a "professional" named Jessica, who in reality is his sister Ki-jeong. Once hired, Ki-jeong gets Mr. Park's driver fired and replaced with her "Uncle Kim" - her father Ki-taek. Finally, the Kims get housekeeper Moon-gwang fired, with Choong-sook hired in her place, so that the whole Kim family is now hired by the Parks, without the latter realizing. But maintaining the deception proves difficult, particularly when one evening the former housekeeper Moon-gwang returns, claiming that she needs to retrieve something she left in the basement...
Notes
- Won the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. It was the first film since 2013 to win the accolade with a unanimous vote.
- South Korea's submisssion for 2020 foreign language Oscar, it won the award.
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Cast
- Song Kang-ho
- Hye-jin Jang
- Woo-sik Choi
- Park So-dam
- Lee Sun-kyun
- Cho Yeo-jeong
- Hyun-jun Jung
(Park Da-song) - Jung Ji-so
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