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ACTION SERIES

More: Free; April 7, 9 p.m.; Goodyear Arts, 301 Camp Road; goodyeararts.com

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INTERNATIONAL NOIR: ‘MEMORIES OF MURDER’

Before garnering Oscar acclaim with Parasite, Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-Ho helped to catch a serial killer. His 2003 flick Memories of Murder is based on a notorious string of South Korean killings in the late 1980s. This gritty and intense procedural, which follows three investigators who are hopelessly in over their heads, is laced with coalblack humor. It rekindled interest in the cold case — so much so that the culprit was identified in 2019. A post-screening discussion with UNC Charlotte Film Studies Lecturer Sam Shapiro follows the April 16 screening.