Film
The Handmaiden
- Director
- Park Chan-wook
- Certificate
- 18
- Running Time
- 156 mins
Original Oldboy director Chan-wook Park‘s Cannes Palme d’Or-nominated erotic thriller set in 1930s Korea. It’s the tale of a young woman hired as a handmaiden to a heiress. But she’s actually a pickpocket recruited by a dastardly swindling cad who hopes to seduce the wealthy toff, nab her loot and bung her in the nuthouse.
This splendid epic of period kinky fun is presented from multiple viewpoints, Rashomon-style and is packed with lashings of nudity, ghosts, S&M and twisty-turny surprises. You probably wouldn’t guess that it’s actually a reworking of Sarah Waters‘ 2002 crime novel Fingersmith, with the action transposed from Victorian London. Go here for our full review.
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