No Other Choice, Park’s 12th feature, channels his pet preoccupations – confinement, bumbling ultraviolence, bad decisions – into a scathing anti-capitalist satire. “Director Park”, as they call him on set, is the second film-maker to take a crack at the material. “He allowed me to make the film,” Park says. “The novel is written in the first person, so it shares the character’s thoughts directly,” Park says. “What fascinated me was the idea that losing a job could be equated with losing one’s masculinity, or one’s authority as a father or husband,” Park says.

Source: The Irish Times January 19, 2026 15:31 UTC