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The Handmaiden
Never did they expect to get into a controversial relationship...
Never did they expect to get into a controversial relationship...
Drama, Romance, Thriller - 2016
8.1
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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.
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Details

Rated:
NOT RATED
Runtime:
145 min
Release date:
1 Jun 2016
Country:
KR
Languages:
Japanese, Korean
Budget:
$8,575,000
Revenue:
$38,600,000
Awards:
59 wins & 85 nominations.

Top Critics Reviews

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,
21 Oct 2016
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,
21 Oct 2016
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,
20 Oct 2016
fresh:
The art of the tease is rarely as refined as in "The Handmaiden."
– Manohla Dargis,
New York Times,
20 Oct 2016
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,
20 Oct 2016
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