Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The film is, surprisingly enough, an adaptation of Sarah Waters’s 2002 novel Fingersmith, a Victorian crime novel about a petty ...

The young, delicate Lady Hideko has never left the mansion she was raised in from childhood. Her Uncle Kouzuki is grooming her for marriageto himself, so he can plunder her inheritance. Until then, he ...

Park Chan-wook’s critically acclaimed “The Handmaiden” is now playing. It’s like “The Grifters” meets “Blue Is the Warmest Color” meets “Oldboy.” What it’s not like is a nominee for best ...

When you spend your time making revenge movies, people may start to call you “the revenge guy”—and, in the last decade of his career, Park Chan-wook hasn’t exactly given the impression he’s eager to ...

There’s a memorable sex scene about a quarter of the way through “The Handmaiden,” where Sook-hee (Kim Tae-ri), the young maid tasked with deceiving Lady Hideko (Kim Min-hee) into marrying the devious ...

Amongst the plethora of brilliant, inventive directors that have come out of South Korea in the 21st century, Park Chan-wook occupies a special place in my heart. Before high-caliber artists like Bong ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The Handmaiden” is a Korean drama that’s adapted from the novel “Fingersmith.” It’s about a heiress and her handmaiden, who’s ...

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 ...

Eroticism has long been a dirty word in film. But a new thriller about a clandestine affair between two women in 1930s Korea returns the genre to its transgressive roots. Is eroticism fashionable in ...

If there was any doubt that Elisabeth Moss had a long, fruitful career beyond her extraordinary work as Peggy on Mad Men, they should have been extinguished by now. Even when the show was still on, ...