This brilliantly layered black comedy from director Bong Joon-ho (Okja; Mother, PSIFF 2010) is a searing commentary on the social and economic alienation that comes with class inequality. When a friend offers Kim Ki-woo (Choi Woo-shik) a job as an English tutor for the daughter of affluent parents, he jumps at the chance, and soon cunningly and systematically maneuvers the other members of his family into the household as employees. Life becomes infinitely more comfortable for the Kim family, who had been surviving on menial jobs while living in a dingy basement apartment. As they become increasingly intertwined with their employers, they not only begin living in their spacious home, but start to inhabit it. Magnificently performed, mind-blowingly twisty and with an assured directorial sleight of hand, master filmmaker Bong’s latest won him the coveted Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Winner: Palme d'Or, Cannes

In competition for the FIPRESCI Prize