5/13/2023 0 Comments Handmaiden sarah waters![]() ![]() Because it’s not part of the source material,” says Park. Perhaps inevitably, given it’s a Park film, grisly vengeance plays a part too. ![]() There is, in a nod to Oldboy’s cephalopod-chomping dinner scene, an octopus – a leviathan hulk (too huge to eat) that splurges from a fish tank in the antagonist’s chambers. There is betrayal and devotion and lots of explicit lesbian sex. A romance told from both sides, in which neither can ever fully be trusted. Maybe revenge is a part of me … Because it’s not part of the source materialĭivided, like the book, into three parts, it is a strange and sumptuous film. Park’s version, transferred to 1930s Korea, maps out the same basic plot (maid meets lady, maid and lady fall for each other, double-cross each other, then reunite). It’s based on Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith, the Man Booker prize-nominated novel about a female Victorian street urchin who is tasked with winning the trust of a lady and, eventually, displacing her. Park is busy examining his gender fluidity because of his new film, The Handmaiden, which premiered at the Cannes film festival last week. ![]()
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