Korean CIA chief Kim secretly nurtures personal disgust with his dissolute president’s embarrassing appetites and impatience with his dissent-mired nation. During a banquet with President Park, Kim impulsively improvises a conspiracy that will change the course of world politics.
One of the most exciting Korean directors working today, Im Sang-soo showed up at Cannes with this controversial political-thriller-turned-dark-comedy. Sued and originally censored, it nonetheless won critical acclaim—a story too impossible to believe, and too insane to be made up!