No Other Choice
Wed, Dec 3, 2025
NEW RELEASE
- Part of
- BAM Film 2025
Directed by Park Chan-wook (2025)
With
Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Park Hee-soon, Lee Sung-min, Yeom Hye-ran, Cha Seung-won
South Korea’s Academy Awards submission for Best Foreign Film is being hailed by critics as an utter masterpiece and earned a rapturous nine-minute standing ovation at this year’s Venice Film Festival. No Other Choice follows one man’s berserk search for a new job after he is abruptly laid off from the paper company where he worked for 25 years. The visionary Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Decision to Leave) helms this captivating black-comedy thriller—one of the most highly anticipated and acclaimed films of the season—adapted from Donald E. Westlake’s 1997 novel The Ax.
Park Chan-wook will join us for a live Q&A following the 8pm screening on December 3.
Park Chan-wook will join us for a live Q&A following the 8pm screening on December 3.
UPCOMING Screenings
RUNNING TIME
139min
VENUE
FORMAT
DCP
LANGUAGE
In Korean with English subtitles
TICKET INFORMATION
General Admission: $20
Members: $15
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