The Handmaiden (Agassi, dir. Park Chan-wook) x VIFF 2016.
Chan-wook has crafted a masterfully tense and unnerving Korean portrait of class and colonialism. It’s a twisty, sexy thriller in the Hitchcock mould wrapped in an East meets West period style. It’s both a trashy and sophisticated melodrama set amongst the Japanese influenced upper crust of Korean society at the time while focusing on petty thieves and con artists with an explicitly erotic bent. It’s an absolutely high cinematic achievement in narrative storytelling and entertainment.
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