The Handmaiden [Sub: Eng]
In ‘30s-era Korea, young Sookee is sent to work as the handmaiden to a wealthy Japanese lady but in fact, she is involved in a plot to help a con-man seduce and bilk the lady out of her inheritance.
March 27, 2005 in Dangjin, South Chungcheong, South Korea
28 February 1994, South Korea
11 March 1978
30 December 1955, Busan, South Korea
24 April 1990, South Korea
2 July 1974, South Korea
April 26, 2017
The tricksy plot streamlines and improves the final messy section of the source novel, to tease and mislead even the most astute viewer.April 21, 2017
If one wasn't swayed by Oldboy or [Chan-Wook's] underrated English-language debut Stoker, The Handmaiden may be the one to convince audiences of this remarkable talent.November 01, 2016
Chan-wook Park's The Handmaiden is deliciously perverse, delightfully twisty, and unapologetically erotic.April 17, 2017
The Handmaiden is sensuous rather than lurid, an erotic thriller with a sense of humour and more than a few twists up its sleeve.October 28, 2016
Park Chan-wook is a master of classy trash... There's artistry in his filmmaking, but also a lot of blood, plenty of sick humor and moments of sheer lunacy. The Handmaiden ranks among his best films yet.November 01, 2016
Far too good to be watched in one sitting.October 28, 2016
The surface is classical, while Park's perversity bubbles up from beneath.October 30, 2016
The Handmaiden is just pure cinema, a dizzying, disturbing fable of love and betrayal that piles on luxurious imagery, while never losing track of its story's human core.April 21, 2017
... the look of a lavish period drama, the elegance of an arthouse film, the complex plotting of an ingenious caper that only the movies could sustain, and the sex of a classy softcore picture.November 11, 2016
Go see it. If you love cinema at all, go see it.April 20, 2017
A twisty, twisted, psycho-sexual thriller, in which, for all its explicit content, nothing is quite as it appears.