Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 2019)

Parasite, winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, confirms Bong as one of the finest directors of commercial cinema today. I want to say little more since the film features several outrageous twists. But I'll note that he creates unbearable tension with equal parts humor and despair (well, maybe a bit more despair) and that Parasite would make a terrific double feature with Shoplifters (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2018). I also checked out Snowpiercer (2013) again for the first time since its first run. Solid as funk except for the ending which suggests he didn't know where to go with the story. But endings are so 2000 and late. Tons of fun (and despair).