The President’s Last Bang

The bizarre final day of South Korea’s dictatorial President Park Chung Hee – assassinated in 1979 by the head of the Korean CIA – is recreated in Im Sangsoo’s “tight, sober and strangely comical” (New York Times) film. Despite student protests and calls for democracy, the inner circles of power insulate Park (Song Jaeho) in a safe house, where the notorious womanizing president parties with a call girl and an up-and-coming pop singer. “Politically incisive… [a] wildly funny whirlwind of anarchy, violence, and sex” – New York.