Min-hee Kim
Audiences are well-endowed with a suspension of disbelief, and we deserve nostalgic, beautiful, happy stories Like The Handmaiden.
While lacking the effervescence of his previous film Claire’s Camera, Sang-soo Hang’s The Day After has a mournful cloud that hangs over this digital monochrome display of admirable honesty.
Watching Claire’s Camera feels like watching a film being made right in front of you with director Hong laying bare his cinematic style in that he doesn’t know where he’s taking us, but he’s just as interested to find out.
Director Hong Sang-Soo’s latest effort, On The Beach At Night Alone, is one of his most deeply autobiographical (and best!) to date, but it isn’t particularly accessible for newcomers to his filmography.
The Handmaiden is director Park Chan-wook’s most explicit film to date, if only in its portrayals of warped male sexuality contrasted with the comparatively emotive sexuality of women.
