The Handmaiden, like all of Park Chan-wook’s films, uses harsh methods to test the viewer’s fortitude, challenging their senses before rewarding their wisdom. Borrowing a good deal of its story from the Victorian-set novel Fingersmith, The Handmaiden is an atypically swoon-worthy…
Cannes Report #3 (The BFG, Handmaiden, Toni Erdmann, Slack Bay)
It’s a moment etched in Cannes history. Steven Spielberg’s E.T. premiering in 1982 as the closing night film, the famous bike ride to the moon sequence occurring and the entire audience firing up their lighters in the dark. Goosebumps. Any…
What To Watch This Weekend: Spike Lee’s Oldboy or Park Chan-Wook’s Oldboy
The remake of Park Chan Wook’s cult classic Oldboy, directed by Spike Lee, did not get a warm reception from critics and was a box office disaster. Even Spike Lee and the film’s main star, Josh Brolin, criticized the version…