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Saw the neat Dutch-British sci fi/survival/psychological thriller film THE OCCUPANT (2025) last night. Really irritating that I didn’t discover it earlier, as it would have been a contender for my top list of last year. I just love to find well-made indie genre films like this.
Today, I finally got around to Park Chan-wook’s new film, NO OTHER CHOICE (2025). Well, I was rather disappointed, to be honest. It’s a story about class structures, poverty, lay-offs and desperate measures to protect your family, much like PARASITE by his Korean colleague Bong Joon Ho, and in fact Chan-wook tries to infuse it with the kind of Roald Dahl-inspired, burlesque quality that Joon Ho is (occasionally) known for. But the comedy was off here, the story is way too drawn out and the central premise is simply not very interesting. But I loved the deep, autumnal colours and settings. Kudos to cinematographer Kim Woo-hyung.