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 in 1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation where a pickpocket (Sookee) is hired to be a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress (Hideko) who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle (Kouzuki).
Sookee is recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to elope with him, rob her of her fortune,… Read the full story
