In my experience, Korean films can be (and love to be) a bit over-the-top (as can films from any country, to be fair, still… Korea seems to have a special advantage in this respect), but Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite strikes a magical balance of over-the-top-ness and gripping story-telling that left me and our lovely audience screaming with delight tonight. I hope the neighbors didn’t mind!

As perfect as it gets, Parasite invites you to be an insider to begin with… you just know how this con is going to play out, and you cheer as it does, until… well… until… This is film-making at its very best. Somewhat reminiscent of last year’s Palme d’or winner, Shoplifters, come to think of it.

Since Parasite is a tiny bit on the long side (not that you’d notice), we selected a brief short this evening… our go-to brief short, in fact. Evil Beaver a Miller Lite commercial, believe it or not. Funny.