Bravo! The Koreans have done it again. Another steamy mainstream film is here to whet your appetites.
A "lurid potboiler," The Handmaiden is directed by Park Chan-wook of Oldboy and Thirst fame.
If the title sounds familiar, that's because we already had erotic films like The Housemaid (starring Do-yeon Jeon) and The Servant (starring Jo Yeo-jeong). Naturally, this new arrival is also an explicit entry in this canon.
It is actually adapted from a British novel, Fingersmith, though with its setting changed to colonial-era Korea. It is about a rich heiress and the thief hired to be her maid, ...
