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‘The Sympathizer’, Park Chan-wook’s rewrite of the Vietnam War with a touch of black comedy
In his debut as showrunner, the director of ‘Oldboy’ directs a mini-series based on the recent Pulitzer Prize-winning book that shows the other side of the generation-defining U.S. armed conflict