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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Two of the steamiest scenes in the lavish erotic caper The Handmaiden are also among its least graphic, at least visually. In both, the young heiress Lady Hideko reads Sadean literary pornography to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following his disappointing first foray into English-language filmmaking with the violent and visually arresting but silly "Stoker," Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook returns to his native land with ...

Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden might be the kinkiest film at the 69th Cannes Film Festival and people are raving about it. The film is based on Welsh writer, Sarah Water’s novel, Fingersmith, but set ...