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Okja to screen in London cinema for 2 days

So the rumours were true. Okja will be screened at a Curzon cinema, but unless you are a night owl or don’t have a daytime job you will have to take out a Netflix subscription and watch it on your TV.

Okja

Director: Bong Joon Ho
Length: 131 min
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano, An Seo Hyun
Curzon Soho: Wed 28, Thurs 29 June 2017 | 12:40pm, 3:30pm, 9:15pm
Book here

Okja

For 10 idyllic years, young Mija has been caretaker and constant companion to Okja – a massive animal and an even bigger friend – at her home in the mountains of South Korea. But that changes when a family-owned multinational conglomerate Mirando Corporation takes Okja for themselves and transports her to New York, where image obsessed and self-promoting CEO Lucy Mirando has big plans for Mija’s dearest friend.

With no particular plan but single-minded in intent, Mija sets out on a rescue mission, but her already daunting journey quickly becomes more complicated when she crosses paths with disparate groups of capitalists, demonstrators and consumers, each battling to control the fate of Okja… while all Mija wants to do is bring her friend home.

 

(automatically generated) Read LKL’s review of this event here.

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