Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000)
Directed by Bong Joon Ho
An idle part-time college lecturer is annoyed by the yapping sound of a nearby dog. He decides to take drastic action.
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In many ways, this feels like the culmination of inimitably Bongian preoccupations: his obsession with psychologically freighted subterranean spaces, stretching all the way back to his debut, Barking Dogs Never Bite ; immaculately executed whiplash moments that snap from comedy to tragedy; and a predilection for the surreal in his setpieces.
The fifty-year-old South Korean director’s work is impeccable, often absurd but also thrillingly precise; his other features are “Okja,” 2017; “Snowpiercer,” 2013; “Mother,” 2009; “The Host,” 2006; “Memories of Murder,” 2003; and “Barking Dogs Never Bite,” 2000.
Parasite is his seventh feature, following Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000), Memories of Murder (2003), The Host (2006), Mother (2009), Snowpiercer (2013) and Okja (2017).
Bong Joon Ho, the sui generis South Korean auteur behind unclassifiable modern wonders like “Barking Dogs Never Bite” and “The Host,” has always made films that refuse to fit the narrow parameters of any particular genre.
It feels like the culmination of his ideas and his technical mastery, workshopped in excellent-in-their-own-right films like Snowpiercer, The Host, and Barking Dogs Never Bite.
His expert blend of dark humor and horrifying drama can be seen in such early classics as Barking Dogs Never Bite and Memories of Murder.
He’ll be available by Skype for a Q&A session immediately after Okja, which will in turn be followed by the filmmaker’s 2000 feature Barking Dogs Never Bite.
He made me both laugh and cringe in a deadpan black comedy "Barking Dogs Never Bite" (2000), and then he played me like a piano in his great rural-set thriller film "Memories of Murder" (2003), and then he surprised me with monster film "The Host" (2006), and then he came back to another thriller set in the countryside in "Mother" (2009).
With “Snowpiercer,” the eminently talented South Korean genre-bender Bong Joon-ho (“The Host,” “Barking Dogs Never Bite,” “Mother”) aims beyond the fences again with his fevered free adaptation of Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette’s 1984 French graphic novel, “Le Transperceneige.”
…from his 2000 debut “Barking Dogs Never Bite”…
Flandersui gae (Barking Dogs Never Bite) – 2000…
…veering more towards his absurdist lens, which originally put him on the map with Barking Dogs Never Bite…
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Now if only someone in New York will release his feature debut, the biting black comedy "Barking Dogs Never Bite" (2001).