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"Another brilliant movie by Korean director Park Chan-wook. The movie, which is an adaptation of the novel The Fingersmith, revolves around a woman who is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress. This is the very basic summary to a movie that has a lot of depth underneath the surface and requires the audience's attention throughout. And as the plot goes on we discover the newly hired handmaiden may have some ulterior motives along with many of the other characters. Nothing is revealed too qui"
"SCREENING: London Film Festival DATE: October 8th CINEMA: Embankment Garden Cinema LOCATION: Victoria Embankment"
"1st viewing, Cinema 25 September 2016 Directed By: Chan-wook Park "
" Very late entry to this list, but any Chan-wook Park film is highly anticipated by me. I have no idea from the trailer what exactly this is about but it looks Amazing."
"SYNOPSIS 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 elope with him, rob her of her fortune, and lock her up in a madhouse. The plan seems to proceed according to plan until Sookee and Hideko d"