Snowpiercer

Bong Joon Ho’s first English language feature is a post-apocalyptic adventure set aboard an unstoppable train whose class-divided carriages stoke the fires of revolution.

  • Director

    Bong Joon Ho

  • With

    Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Tilda Swinton, Octavia Spencer

  • South Korea 2013. 126min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    15

  • With some English subtitles

The Korean maestro moved effortlessly into the English language with this celebrated slice of post-apocalyptic lunatic mayhem. A man-made ice age has killed off all life on Earth, bar a remnant of humans surviving inside a sealed train that endlessly circles the globe. The ordinary folk occupy the rear carriages in terrible conditions; the privileged and powerful in more luxurious ones towards the front. Rebellion looms. Tilda Swinton is magnificently hateful as a head mistress-cum-enforcer.

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