ART SEMINAR GROUP ONLINE PROGRAM

SUMMER FILM SERIES

Views from the Peninsula: 21st-Century Korean Cinema

Tuesday, July 13, 2021
11:00 am film screening via Blue Jeans
1:30 pm film discussion via Blue Jeans
The Host (Bong Joon-ho, 2006, 120 min.)
Presented by Linda DeLibero, senior lecturer and special advocate for alumni and outreach, and former director of the JHU film and media studies program

Although it’s billed as a monster movie, The Host shows off the same genre-bending hybridity that made director Bong Joon-ho a household name around the world with Parasite. The traditional thrills of a horror film are all here, but The Host is so much more, trenchantly skewering Bong’s familiar targets—US/South Korean relations, political corruption, the depredations of his country’s hidden caste system, ecological disaster—while applying equal doses of comedy, drama, and heartwarming sentiment. Bong, a master at juggling an audience’s emotions with thrills, chills, and tears, is in top form here, along with Bong regular and Parasite star Song Kang-ho as the hapless Gang-du, whose struggle to save his daughter from the monster of the Han River forces him to find hidden depths of courage and resourcefulness.

$15 fee for guests and subscribers

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