The Handmaiden
2016
****½
Director: Park Chan-Wook
Cast: Kim Min-hee, Kim Tae-ri, Ha Jung-woo, Cho Jin-woong, Kim Hae-sook, Moon So-ri, Lee Yong-nyeo, Lee Dong-hwi, Jo Eun-hyung, Rina Takagi
During the Japanese occupation of Korea, a con man hires a young pickpocket to pose as a handmaiden and encourage a wealthy Japanese heiress to marry him. But who is actually conning who in this intriguing scenario? Park Chan-Wook's erotically charged thriller was Inspired by the 2002 novel Fingersmith by Sarah Waters. This is a visually lavish and fabulously entertaining tale of desire and deception.
