Mickey 17with Professor Steven Chung

2025 2 hr 19 min

R

Princeton University’s Steven Chung will introduce this screening and lead a Q&A after the film.

Filmmaker Bong Joon-ho’s much anticipated followup to his Academy Award winning film Parasite is an English-language science fiction black comedy. Robert Pattinson stars as Mickey, an “expendable” employee who regenerates a new body every time he dies. After surviving an expedition to colonize a planet, a new version is mistakenly regenerated creating two versions of Mickey. Based on a novel, MICKEY 17 has the biting class commentary and unique vision that Joon-ho is known for. Also starring Toni Collette, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, and Mark Ruffalo.

Steven Chung is associate professor in the East Asian Studies department, associate faculty in Comparative Literature, and on the Executive Committee for Film Studies. His research and teaching interests range widely: from Korean and East Asian film and media to global histories of political and religious conversion to traditions in film theory and critical theory. His first book, Split Screen Korea: Shin Sang-ok and Postwar Cinema, published in 2014 and winner of that year’s Association for Asian Studies Prize for Best Book in Korean Studies, explored the aesthetic and political terrain of the postcolonial and postwar Korean peninsula through the work of filmmaker Shin Sang-ok. His current research tracks the circulation and reconfiguration of audiovisual technologies throughout Cold War in East and Southeast Asias.

Director Bong Joon-ho

Cast Robert Pattinson, Toni Collette, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Mark Ruffalo

Country South Korea / USA

Language English

Aspect 1.85

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