Korean pop music blasts over a miscalculated murder scene involving a screaming match, baking gloves and a North Korea-issued revolver in Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice, premiering at this year’s London Film Festival. It’s just one of the heightened comic set-pieces that thrills in this hyper-resonant drama.
In 2019, Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite gave us the Park family’s modern, minimalistic house as the setting for a sharp, anti-capitalist satire, and in No Other Choice, we’re treated to a similarly impressive feat of production design. The work of Korean production designer, Ryu Seong-hie, a frequent collaborator of Chan-wook’s, another gorgeous modern home sets the scene for the delirious social satire that’s to come.
