The Host (Bong Joon-ho, 2006): Prince Charles Cinema, 8.45pm
This film is a 35mm presentstion.
Chicago Reader review:
Quite possibly the wisest, most moving monster movie ever made, Bong Joon-ho's feature deservedly became South Korea's biggest ever box-offce success. Six years after the U.S. army poisons Seoul's Han River, a giant lizard-like creature emerges and rampages along the banks. It may carry a lethal virus, one the U.S. decides it's responsible for eradicating. Among the monster's prisoners is a young girl, and her colorfully dysfunctional family—her narcoleptic father is mildly retarded, his educated brother full of resentment, the grandfather stubbornly conservative—must scheme against a repressive state apparatus to rescue her. Bong's film brilliantly mixes frights, gentle humor, outrageous Grand Guignol, and sharp political satire: you don't have to look hard to find a disquieting allegory about real terror, state-imagined terrorism, and local resistance.
Shelly Kraicer
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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