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Author: Sébastien Toursel

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Dead Duck Film Club Podcast is a twice-monthly, deep-dive into great foreign cinema,from arthouse to cult and genre. Hosted by the team behind Nottingham’s Dead Duck Film Club, we dissect international films to figure out what makes them brilliant, broken, or unforgettable.

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Séb and Mark dive into Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice, unpacking its dark humour, themes of masculinity, wealth, desperation, and societal pressure. They explore the film’s performances, visual style, emotional shifts, and moral chaos, offering an honest, spoiler-filled take on one of the year’s most provocative releases.00:00 Intro06:00 First thoughts on No Other Choice12:00 Themes: masculinity, wealth, pressure18:00 Dark humour & tone24:00 Identity, work & moral choices33:00 Mansu’s descent52:00 Relationships & emotional fallout01:09:00 Climax & consequences01:22:00 What the film is really about01:29:00 Performances & final thoughts
We dive into Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden, a seductive, twist-filled thriller about power, deception, and desire.We unpack its shocking turns, shifting perspectives, and why it feels like one of the boldest, funniest, and most exhilarating films of the 21st century. Expect spoilers, strong opinions, and a lot of love for a modern masterpiece.
Oscar-winning makeup artist Adrien Morot reveals how the shocking, hyper-real wounds of Martyrs were created, from foam-latex prosthetics to the infamous flayed-body finale.
The editor behind Titane and all of Julia Ducournau’s films joins Dead Duck to break down brutal cuts, emotional rhythm, and how a Palme d’Or winner was shaped in the edit suite.
The author of Mickey7 joins Dead Duck to tell the wild story of how his unpublished sci-fi novel became Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17 , plus the science, characters and creative heart behind the book.
The legendary editor behind Parasite, Snowpiercer and Okja joins Dead Duck to break down Bong Joon-ho’s editing process, the iconic Peach montage, and how great films are really cut.
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