Film: Park steals hearts with period piece
A complex, sweeping drama is kept intimate and sincere by tremendous performances from the two leading actresses
Cinema
The Handmaiden: Directed by Park Chan-wook, Nationwide, 18 Rating: 4/5
Fast & Furious 8: Directed by F Gary Gray, Nationwide, 12A Rating: 1/5
Sensuality is both the subject and the style of Oldboy director Park Chan-Wook’s The Handmaiden, an adaptation of Sarah Waters’ 2002 novel Fingersmith that transposes the setting from Victorian England to Korea under Japanese occupation before WWII.
Swapping his usual themes of ultra-violence and dark revenge for a sumptuous, ...
