It’s best not to get too comfortable watching The Handmaiden, the latest film from Park Chan-Wook (Oldboy, Stoker). It’s a movie that lets viewers think they know what they’re watching before, ...

Marital bliss, immense wealth, sinister interlopers and dark family secrets — who doesn't love a good domestic thriller? This ...

The Handmaiden is a Korean-language erotic thriller drama directed by Park Chan-wook. The movie revolves around a Japanese woman. She hires a handmaiden only to get cheated by her in unimaginable ways ...

Park Chan-wook is a master storyteller whose filmmaking style has exerted a considerable influence on 21st-century cinema.

After making his English-language debut with the disappointing 'Stoker' in 2013, the South Korean auteur is returning to his boundary-pushing roots with the erotic thriller. By Lee Hyo-won It’s been ...

South Korean gothic is not a category I encounter frequently. But there is no other or, for that matter, better way to describe Park Chan-wook’s deliriously demented, visually lush, incredibly violent ...

“The Handmaiden” is a Korean drama that’s adapted from the novel “Fingersmith.” It’s about a heiress and her handmaiden, who’s actually a pickpocket that’s scheming to steal her fortune with another ...

Things happen fast in “The Handmaiden.” It runs for almost two and a half hours, but the running is a steady stream, without a hint of stagnation or scum, and if you can predict, mid-movie, what lies ...

Though he's known for making quasi-horror films, director Park Chan-wook's latest movie is a melodrama set in 1930s Korea. Critic David Edelstein says The Handmaiden is fun and full of twists. This is ...

The primary subject explored by the Welsh writer Sarah Waters is the kind of freedom that women can find only with one another. In the early nineteen-nineties, Waters wrote a doctoral thesis on ...