Fresh
Absolutely gorgeous, with so much attention paid to every visual detail from the costumes to the mansion's many rooms.
Edward Douglas, New York Daily News
The Handmaiden
Never did they expect to get into a controversial relationship...
2016 · 2h 25m · Not Rated
Drama, Romance, Thriller
Directed by
Park Chan-wook
Overview
1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sookee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to steal her fortune.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
96%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Like Park's best work, it's an expressionistic, at times surreal movie that skates along the knife-edge of dreams. Every frame pulses with life, sometimes with blood.
Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com
Fresh
Like a Victorian settee infested with vipers, Park Chan-wook's The Handmaiden mixes the elegant and the dangerous, the refined and the venomous; it affects refinement and crawls on its belly. It's also apt to bite.
John Anderson, Wall Street Journal
Fresh
The art of the tease is rarely as refined as in "The Handmaiden."
Manohla Dargis, New York Times
Fresh
Eschewing his usual modus operandi for the rollicking tension of active kink, Park finds a percolating balance between sensuality and sin, and it might just win him admirers beyond the usual bloodthirsty fanboys.
Robert Abele, TheWrap
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