Snowpiecer (2013)

“Snowpiercer sucks you into its strange, brave new world so completely, it leaves you with the all-too-rare sensation that you’ve just witnessed something you’ve never seen before…and need to see again.“ –Entertainment Weekly

In this sci-fi epic from director Bong Joon-Ho a new ice age forces humanity’s last survivors to live aboard a futuristic train, the Snowpiercer. When cryptic messages incite the passengers to revolt, the train thrusts full-throttle towards disaster. A rigid class system evolves on the train, with the poorest and hungriest imprisoned in the rear cars while others prosper and indulge at the front, but a revolution brews. At once thrilling and surreal, blackly funny and bleakly brilliant, Bong’s (literally) chilling vision of the future is a sledgehammer satire from which the viewer emerges bruised and exhilarated.

This film is screening as part of Arkadin’s December-long series IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER, spotlighting films that show winter in all its dark, desolate beauty.

For more information, https://arkadincinema.com/event/snowpiercer-2013/