No Exit | PREMIERE at KADR (16+)

Hall: Broadway
Admission: 15/20 zł — buy a ticket online or at DK Kadr
Running time: 139 minutes

When the job market is relentless, you have to eliminate the competition. The protagonist of "No Exit" — the new film by Park Chan-wook, director of "Oldboy", "The Handmaiden" and "Decision to Leave" — literally takes matters into his own hands. The Korean master of genre cinema offers an unsettlingly accurate diagnosis of contemporary anxieties in his uncompromising, authorial style.

Man-su ("Squid Game" star Lee Byung-hun) leads an ideal life: steady employment, family, home, two golden retrievers. But one day is enough to turn pastoral calm into horror. Man-su loses his job at a paper mill, and with it his status, masculinity, identity, honor and sense of life. To get them back, he will stop at nothing, especially since the dirty work brings as much satisfaction as the paperwork.

Although it mercilessly mocks the rat race, corporate mentality and male ego, the director also comments on the modern labour market in the age of AI. "No Exit", like the cult "Parasite", hides keen observations about class tensions and turbulent social changes beneath layers of black humor. Half-joking, half-serious, Park Chan-wook poses a provocative question to us: is there a job you could kill for?

• Director: Park Chan-wook
• Cast: Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Park Hee-soon, Lee Sung-min, Yeom Hye-ran, Cha Seung-won
• Country of production: South Korea
• Year of production: 2025
• Original language: Korean
• Genre: thriller, black comedy