Taiwanese Masterpiece ‘A Sun’ Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight All Year (Column)
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variety.comPeter Debruge Chief Film CriticLast February, just before the pandemic upended virtually everything about how the film industry operates, “Parasite” made history at the Academy Awards.
The ingenious South Korean thriller became the first international film to “overcome the 1-inch-tall barrier of subtitles” and win best picture, as director Bong Joon Ho phrased it at the podium.But that was just one of the many barriers to “Parasite’s” potential success.
Asia — which has produced some of the world’s most gifted directors — has had a particularly difficult time being recognized with the Academy.
Hard to believe, but when Ang Lee’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” was nominated for best picture in 2000, it had been a full 45 years since an.
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