After four years without shooting a solo feature film, the South Korean Bong Joon-ho returns to the film scene with «Snow piercer«.
The director who gave life to great works of Asian cinema such as "Memories of Murder" or "Mother" makes his first film on American soil.
Co-production of the United States and South Korea, Snowpiecer stars great actors of Hollywood cinema such as Tilda Swinton, Chris Evans, Octavia Spencer, John Hurt o Ed Harris, as well as Korean movie star Song Kang-ho.
Third collaboration between Bong Joon-ho and the actor Song Kang-ho, who has been under teacher Park Chan-wook several times, after "Memories of Murder" and "The Host."
"Snow Piercer" is a story post-apocalyptic, which places humanity in a world destroyed by a third World War and a subsequent ice age. The only survivors on earth are on a train that goes round a circle, transportation that continues to separate the poor from the rich in its carriages.
The film is an adaptation of the popular graphic novel by Jean-Marc Rochette and Jacques Loeb «The Transperceneige«.
On April 18, the films that will participate in the next Festival of Cannes and this new Bong Joon-ho tape is one of the ones that sounds to appear for the French pageant.
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