Taiwanese Masterpiece 'A Sun' Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight All Year (Column) Taiwanese Masterpiece 'A Sun' Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight All Year (Column) Film critic Peter Debruge's favorite film of 2020 has been widely available on Netflix since last January. Director Chung Mong-hong explains what the film says about his home country, and why this family drama is too universal to be overlooked. Peter Debruge, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Last February, just before the pandemic upended virtually everything about how the film industry operates, “Parasite” made history at the Academy Awards. The ingenious South Korean thriller became the first international film to “overcome the 1-inch-tall barrier of subtitles” and win best picture, as director Bong Joon Ho phrased it at the podium.