Okja
The Bong Show
January 7 - 14, 2020
Deftly blending humor, action, and tearful drama, Bong tells the story of a young girl who leaves her idyllic home in the mountains of South Korea to rescue her dearest friend: a massive, genetically engineered, but sweet-souled animal.
For ten idyllic years in her home in the mountains of South Korea, young Mija (An Seo Hyun) has been caretaker and constant companion to a massive, genetically engineered, but sweet-souled animal named Okja. However, the image-obsessed and self-promoting CEO (Tilda Swinton) of the multinational conglomerate that created Okja has big plans to capture her and bring her to New York. The single-minded Mija sets out to rescue her dearest friend, crossing paths with ruthless capitalists and animal-rights activists, all of them battling to control the fate of Okja. Deftly blending humor, action, and tearful drama, Bong transforms the gentlest of premises—the bond between man and animal—into a distinct and layered vision of the world that speaks to what makes us human.
Playing as part of our Bong Joon Ho retrospective, January 7-14. See showtimes & get tickets.
A fast, fun action-adventure enhanced by its politics.
—Eric Kohn, Indiewire
The perfect comedy-adventure for our era.
—Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair
A madcap fable as purposeful as it is unpredictable.
—Emily Yoshida, Vulture
Gorgeous and moving and thrilling and funny and inventive and unexpected.
—Gregory Ellwood, Collider
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