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 ...

The young, delicate Lady Hideko has never left the mansion she was raised in from childhood. Her Uncle Kouzuki is grooming her for marriageto himself, so he can plunder her inheritance. Until then, he ...

At nearly two-and-a-half-hours, Park Chan-wook‘s period pulp funhouse “The Handmaiden” is a long con but never a lengthy one. It’s more breathless than many thrillers half its running time, and twice ...

And now for something entirely different. A kinky con game from Korea. Think erotic – even borderline pornography. Now that we have your attention, be aware that if you cut away all the art-house ...

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 ...

Park Chan-wook’s adaptation of Sarah Waters’ novel Fingersmith, relocated to 1930s Korea, is an erotic triumph – with a whiplash twist With his erotic classic In the Realm of the Senses from 1976, the ...

After making his English-language debut with the disappointing 'Stoker' in 2013, the South Korean auteur is returning to his boundary-pushing roots with the erotic thriller. By Lee Hyo-won It’s been ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...