His first Korean- language fiction feature since 2. Thirst,” it’s sybaritic, cruel and luridly mesmerizing. SEE MORE: Cannes Film Festival. Freely transposing Welsh novelist Sarah Waters’ Victorian- set romantic thriller “Fingersmith” to 1. Korea under Japanese colonialism, Park initially takes the tale of calculation, seduction and betrayal to heady narrative heights. Before long, however, the director of such extreme revenge thrillers as “Sympathy for Lady. Book One, the most faithful to the original, is narrated by Nam Sook- hee (Kim Tae- ri), an orphaned girl raised as a pickpocket by human trafficker Boksun. A Korean gold- digger (Ha Jung- woo), posing as Japanese count Fujiwara, plucks her from the slums to aid him in the seduction of Hideko (Kim Min- hee), a Japanese heiress living under the stewardship of her Korean uncle Kouzuki (Cho Jin- woong). Fujiwara’s plan is to elope with Hideko, marry her, then commit her to a mental asylum so he can pocket her inheritance. As the common Sook- hee is ushered into this magnificent colonial estate, her bewildered exploration of the Gothic mise- en- sc. The only defect, one that sometimes risks taking viewers out of the story, is the ensemble’s evident struggle to. It’s also where the screenplay veers notably from the source, virtually writing out Boksun’s role and the secrets of the women’s birth. What it instead chooses to highlight and expand is the young lady’s traumatic childhood upbringing by her uncle and aunt (Moon So- ri, cast strikingly against type). Inside the mansion’s voluminous library, Kouzuki’s bibliophilia is revealed to have decidedly aberrant tendencies. Dabbling in the sadomasochism of Takashi Ishii’s “Flower and Snake” series with a touch of Teruo Ishii’s grotesque “porno jidaigeki” . It is also has Park’s signature pain fetish gratuitously splashed over it: One scene adds a new, bloody layer of meaning to the novel’s title “Fingersmith,” while another even brings back a certain signature mollusc from “Oldboy” in monstrously depraved fashion. And while there’s no denying the denouement’s cleverness or the finale’s breathtaking, lyrical evocation of sapphic desire, one comes out feeling sensually satiated. Production values are sensational even by Korean cinema’s blue- chip standards. The mansion’s interior, designed by Ryu Seong- hee, is decorated in hybrid British- Japanese style, combinng the former’s decorative luxuriance with the latter’s elegant symmetry. In his last film, the U. S.- set “Stoker,” Park became so carried away with the set of the retro American country house that he made it the centerpiece of a flimsily constructed family mystery. Toronto International Film Festival 2016 Film Lineup. The full film lineup for the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has been announced. Independent film trailers, teasers and news! Cannes 2016 Playlist (100+ Trailers, Teasers and Clips!!!): http:// The Handmaiden is an. The new thriller from the famous korean director of the cult OLD BOY! Reviews of The Handmaiden, Old Stone, and Window Horses, three films screening at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. Deliriously twisty.' - Bilge Ebiri, Village Voice **. Telluride Horrow Show. View the full schedule here. TELLURIDE HORROR SHOWDirector relocates British author’s novel set in Victorian era to 1930s Korea, and delivers a film that is much more than the lurid lesbian potboiler some critics. ComingSoon.net previews the Toronto Film Festival 2016 with 41 must-see movies to check out. The festival runs from September 8 through September 18. Here, he is in danger again of lingering on too much visual paraphernalia . Running time: 1. 44 MIN. Executive producers, Miky Lee. Co- producers, Yoon Suk- chan, Kim Jong- dae, Jeong Won- jo. Co- executive producer, Jeong Tae- sung. Crew. Directed by Park Chan- wook. Screenplay, Chung Seo- kyung, Park, adapted from the novel . Camera (color, widescreen, HD), Chung Chung- hoon; editor, Kim Sang- bum, Kim Jae- bum; music, Cho Young- wuk; production designer, Ryu Seong- hee; costume designer, Cho Sang- kyung; sound (5. Ch.), Kim Suk- won; re- recording mixer, Jung Gun; visual effects supervisor, Lee Jeon- hyoung; visual effects, 4th Creative Party; associate producer, Jay Lee. With. Kim Min- hee, Kim Tae- ri, Ha Jung- woo, Cho Jin- woong, Kim Hae- sook, Moon So- ri.
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