Screening times:
Saturday, March 28, 6:00 PM - this screening occurs at Bus Stop Theatre on Gottingen St
Park Chan-wook | Korea | 2025 | 139m
Korean with English subtitles
From award-winning filmmaker Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Decision to Leave) comes a black comedy workplace thriller about a man abruptly laid off from the paper company where he worked for 25 years. Lee Byung Hun is Man-soo, bringing a lot of sympathy to his role as a middle-aged breadwinner. In the hunt for gainful employment, Man-soo takes increasingly violent measures to eliminate the competition for a new position.
No Other Choice is South Korea’s Academy Awards submission for Best Foreign Film. It earned a nine-minute standing ovation at this year’s Venice Film Festival. The screenplay adapts thriller author Donald E. Westlake’s 1997 novel The Ax, updating it for our increasingly precarious times with its vision of an increasingly desperate salary man. Credited as a cowriter of the film is veteran Canadian actor and filmmaker, Don McKellar.
"I thought it was genuinely remarkable." - Mark Kermode, Kermode and Mayo's Take
"No other living filmmaker could so elegantly dance the line between bleak, absurd, devastating and slapstick like he does in his 10th feature film and latest masterpiece." - Katie Walsh, Tribute News Service
"For all its dark comedy, the movie is most cutting when it moves away from the big set pieces and, instead, examines the small ways that employees lose their humanity to a capitalist system that’s out to destroy them." - Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times
Tickets $12 ($11.40 at the door if available)
The March 28 screening takes place at Bus Stop Theatre on Gottingen St
