Ah-ga-ssi (2016)

Slo naslov: - 

Angleški naslov: The Handmaiden

Država: Južna Koreja

Leto: 2016

Dolžina: 145',  Imdb

Žanri: Drama, Romantični   

Slo recenzija: -

Režija: Park Chan-wook

Scenarij: Chung Seo-kyung, Sarah Waters (knjiga)

Igrajo: Kim Min-hee, Kim Tae-ri, Ha Jung-woo, Cho Jin-woong, Kim Hae-sook,

Moon So-ri

[ENG]

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 discover some unexpected emotions. [CJ Entertainment]

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Park Chan-wook transposes Sarah Waters’ sapphic Victorian potboiler Fingersmith to Japanese-occupied Korea at the beginning of the twentieth century. And the fit is as perfect as one of the svelte, elbow-length kid leather gloves that become such a potent visual motif in a film which feels like a compendium of erotic imagery. Chan-wook downplays some of the complexity of Waters’ novel, stripping out a layer or two of double-crossing and intrigue that would have overcomplicated the third act. And he ups the ante on the sado masochism, plunging us into an alarmingly well-equipped torture chamber at a pivotal moment. But the film manages the tricky feat of both staying true to Waters breathless, page-turning prose, and creating a wholly persuasive new milieu for the story. [Wendy Ide, Screen Daily]

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