NEW RELEASE
No Other Choice
An unemployed paper worker hatches a cunning plan to murder his way back into the job market. Sensational state-of-the-nation satire from Korean auteur Park Chan-wook.
Director: PARK CHAN-WOOK
Cast includes: LEE BYUNG-HUN, SON YE-JIN
Thursday morning screenings will include subtitles wherever possible and a free hot drink with your ticket (all Thursday morning tickets are concession rate or under 21s rate)
139 MINS / 2025 / SOUTH KOREA / KOREAN (ENGLISH SUBTITLES)
An unemployed paper worker hatches a cunning plan to murder his way back into the job market in this continually surprising black comedy from the director of The Handmaiden and Oldboy. Korean director Park Chan-wook’s new film brings his usual effortlessly fluent, steely confidence and a type of storytelling momentum that can accommodate all kinds of digressions, set-pieces and the occasional trance-like submission to mysterious visions.
It starts out like an Ealing comedy-type caper then somehow morphs into something else: a portrait of family dysfunction, fragile masculinity and the breadwinner crisis, and the state of the nation itself. It is based on Donald E Westlake’s satirical horror-thriller The Ax from 1997, previously filmed in 2005 by Costa-Gavras, to whom this film is dedicated.
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