Roger Luckhurst Festivals

2 months ago | bfi.org.uk | Roger Luckhurst Festivals |Roger Luckhurst |Nicolas Rapold |Jessica Kiang

It’s been six years since the South Korean director Bong Joon Ho broke into the big league with the Oscar-winning Parasite (2019). A delayed release date for Mickey 17 worried some; perhaps the studio didn’t know how to position the film, given the director’s return to the crazy exuberance of his early creature-feature The Host (2006) or the super-pig shenanigans of Okja (2017). Or was it worried by the overt liberal politics of this frenetic satire?