The Handmaiden (Agassi) (NR)
synopsis
A ravishing new crime drama inspired by the novel ‘Fingersmith' by British author Sarah Waters. Having transposed the story to 1930s-era colonial Korea and Japan, Park presents a gripping and sensual tale of a young Japanese Lady living on a secluded estate, and a Korean woman who is hired to serve as her new handmaiden, but who is secretly involved in a conman's plot to defraud her of her large inheritance.
details
Romance, Drama
2 hr. 23 min.
Opened October 21st, 2016
MovieGoer Review
Chan-wook Park's The Handmaiden is deliciously perverse, delightfully twisty, and unapologetically erotic. Delivered with a dash of black humor and a fair amount of bare flesh, Park (using Sarah Walters' novel Fingersmith as a template) del... MORE
synopsis
A ravishing new crime drama inspired by the novel ‘Fingersmith' by British author Sarah Waters. Having transposed the story to 1930s-era colonial Korea and Japan, Park presents a gripping and sensual tale of a young Japanese Lady living on a secluded estate, and a Korean woman who is hired to serve as her new handmaiden, but who is secretly involved in a conman's plot to defraud her of her large inheritance.
details
Romance, Drama
2 hr. 23 min.
Opened October 21st, 2016
MovieGoer Review
Chan-wook Park's The Handmaiden is deliciously perverse, delightfully twisty, and unapologetically erotic. Delivered with a dash of black humor and a fair amount of bare flesh, Park (using Sarah Walters' novel Fingersmith as a template) del... MORE
