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 ...

Park Chan-wook's erotic psychological thriller paved the way for films featuring complex and complicated queer women The post ...

With its history-making Oscar wins last weekend, Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite has finally gotten the United States to consider Korean cinema more seriously. It’s a category that has cranked out films just ...

Watch a film clip from "The Handmaiden," starring Min-hee Kim, Jung-woo Ha and Kim Tae-ri. Photo: Magnolia Pictures Like a Victorian settee infested with vipers, Park Chan-wook’s “The Handmaiden” ...

There comes a point in “The Handmaiden,” a tantalizing triple-decker entertainment from the South Korean director Park Chan-wook, when a book of lurid Japanese erotica opens up to reveal a drawing of ...

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 ...

Just based on who is telling the story, the narrative can completely change. It’s all about perspective. This becomes an important element in THE HANDMAIDEN, Park Chan-wook’s new film inspired by the ...

Having established South Korean cinema as a creative force with his masterpiece Oldboy, auteur Park Chan-wook returns to the Croisette with The Handmaiden. One of the favorites so far at the Cannes ...

Park Chan-wook first garnered widespread critical success with his 2003 mystery thriller “Oldboy,” which won the Grand Prix at that year’s Cannes awards and received positive notices from Roger Ebert ...

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 ...