Two high-profile entries vying for Best International Feature Oscar nods were the jewels of Neon’s slate covered at The Contenders NY event at the DGA Theater in New York City. Alejandro Landes’ wa…
, Bong Joon Ho offers an ink-black comedy thriller about the members of a poor family who together scheme to work in wealthy household by posing as unrelated, highly qualified help.has that idea built into it. Things go tragically wrong in the film Landes created to emphasize the messiness of warfare while dispelling any of its romantic notions.
To Landes, who used 60 years of civil war in Colombia as main inspiration, the film is “about who we are and it looks at the beast within. I created a war film where you don’t know what it is to win.” It has already won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and has taken Best Film at the London Film Festival.
Bong, who like Song was speaking through an interpreter, then joked in English, “We never sue each other.”
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