It’s best not to get too comfortable watching The Handmaiden, the latest film from Park Chan-Wook (Oldboy, Stoker). It’s a movie that lets viewers think they know what they’re watching before, ...

The film is, surprisingly enough, an adaptation of Sarah Waters’s 2002 novel Fingersmith, a Victorian crime novel about a petty thief who gets entangled in a long con against a noblewoman, with whom ...

The Handmaiden is a Korean-language erotic thriller drama directed by Park Chan-wook. The movie revolves around a Japanese woman. She hires a handmaiden only to get cheated by her in unimaginable ways ...

When you spend your time making revenge movies, people may start to call you “the revenge guy”—and, in the last decade of his career, Park Chan-wook hasn’t exactly given the impression he’s eager to ...

The young, delicate Lady Hideko has never left the mansion she was raised in from childhood. Her Uncle Kouzuki is grooming her for marriageto himself, so he can plunder her inheritance. Until then, he ...

CANNES, France (AP) — Director Park Chan-wook is defending his use of elaborate lesbian sex scenes in his erotic thriller “The Handmaiden,” saying that avoiding them would be like “a war film without ...

If there was any doubt that Elisabeth Moss had a long, fruitful career beyond her extraordinary work as Peggy on Mad Men, they should have been extinguished by now. Even when the show was still on, ...

Amongst the plethora of brilliant, inventive directors that have come out of South Korea in the 21st century, Park Chan-wook occupies a special place in my heart. Before high-caliber artists like Bong ...

“The Handmaiden” is a Korean drama that’s adapted from the novel “Fingersmith.” It’s about a heiress and her handmaiden, who’s actually a pickpocket that’s scheming to steal her fortune with another ...

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