Bong Joon Ho’s steampunk post-apocalypse thriller is set in the future after a climate-change experiment gone catastrophically wrong has destroyed all livable habitats. The survivors exist on Snowpiercer, a high-tech train circling the earth in perpetual motion. The remnants of humanity are divided economically—the lower-classes doomed to grim conditions in the back of the train. When the heroic rebels revolt their way to the front, they find the upper classes enjoying unbelievable luxuries at their expense. The epic dystopian sci-fi, based on a French graphic novel, is Bong’s first English language feature with a cast that includes Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, John Hurt, Octavia Spencer, and Tilda Swinton as well as the director’s longtime collaborators Song Kang Ho and Go Ah Sung. 2013, South Korea, DCP, 126 min.
Tickets available beginning November 12 at 11 am.
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