Pre-Registration strongly suggested: Night School Bar: The Films of Bong Joon-ho

(We expect this class to sell out.)

**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+

Instructor: Berland | Thursdays | November 2 - November 16 | 6:30 - 9:30 PM ET | IN-PERSON, 719 N Mangum St, DURHAM, NC

 Join an in-person film study at Night School Bar in Durham for drinks, popcorn, and some of the most influential anti-capitalist films of our time!

Bong Joon-ho is a South Korean film director whose stylized social satires have drawn a broad international following. Most recently, his 2019 dark comedy, Parasite, famously won him the first ever Best Picture Oscar for a foreign-language film. Like Bong’s other films, Parasite is a tonally irregular, often absurdist polemic against the abuses of the working classes by the ultra-wealthy under late-stage capitalism. Remarkably, the slick aesthetics of his signature style manage to entrance wide and diverse audiences, often including the very people his films overtly chastise. In this way, Bong’s works have prefigured the surge in “Eat the Rich” films and television series like White Lotus, Knives Out, The Menu, Triangle of Sadness, Succession, and others.