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No Other Choice (2025)

Friday, January 16th, 2026
4:00 pm
Details
South Korea | 2025 | 139 minutes | Korean w/ subtitles
Category
Monthly Screenings
Film Type
Feature Film
Cost
$12 General Admission | $6 Student | Member benefits apply
Location
Main Street Landing Film House
60 Lake Street, 3rd floor
Burlington, VT

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Director
Park Chan-wook
Sponsors
host sponsor Main Street Landing
Northfield Savings Bank, Vermont Public

In his latest diabolical comedy-thriller, Park Chan-wook (Decision to Leave, The Handmaiden) crafts a precision-tooled fable about the cutthroat nature of contemporary work culture. When Man-soo (Lee Byung) is abruptly laid off by the paper manufacturing company where he has worked tirelessly for decades, he grows increasingly desperate in his hunt for a new gig as his identity and self-worth unravel. After an extended and increasingly worrisome period of unemployment, Man-soo begins to take merciless measures toward solidifying his standing with a potential new employer, leading to wild—and ever more absurd—acts of violence, orchestrated by Park in his inimitable and extravagant pitch-black slapstick style. Adapting and updating Donald E. Westlake novel The Ax, Park tests the tensility of his signature hyperrealism, bringing it to the brink. No Other Choice—Korea’s submission for Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards—is a brilliant bitter pill full of twists you will never see coming, that only Park could pull off with this level of delirious showmanship.