While Bong Joon Ho’s spectacularly successful Parasite was collecting awards in Cannes and at the Oscars, its black & white twin was quietly waiting in the vaults – or maybe in the basement of a beautiful but foreboding modernist villa.
Painfully pleasurable and utterly epic, this gothic tale of one-eyed seagulls and men going mad is all crashing waves, booming foghorns, and stark, crepuscular landscapes.
Does it matter if wartime resistance is futile? A resolute stand leads to the obscure death of a man, only belatedly turned into a saint by the Church that let him down.