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The Housemaid (Hanyo) [Sub: Eng]
When a man decided to take on his poor housemaid and get down on her, a very dreadful consequence follows.
16 May 1983, South Korea
15 March 1973, Seoul, South Korea
12 January 2004, Suwon, South Korea
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July 14, 2011
With the honourable exception of a film-saving Byung-sik, the characters are too unpleasant and two-dimensional to keep it together.December 13, 2011
The situation continues to fester, the balance of power shifts back and forth among some wonderfully defined characters.February 17, 2011
"The Housemaid" scores on so many levels it's hard to know where to begin.May 15, 2011
...an echo of the 1960 film perhaps, but it's an echo that has been compressed and processed, run through the stomp box that is director Im Sang-soo's imagination.October 04, 2017
While it effectively sticks the knife into upper-class mores, it certainly has a been-there, done-that feel to it that the former does not.April 12, 2016
Im Sang-soo can't improve on Kim Ki-young's 1960 original, a jaIm Sang-soo can't improve on Kim Ki-young's 1960 original, a jarring and operatic cult favorite. Still, he does tweak the themes in intriguing fashion.March 18, 2011
The graphic sex scenes radiate an uncommon heat, and Im can pull off a hugely effective shock when he wants to.October 25, 2011
Quick to show its characters' skin but less inclined to explore what lies beneath it.April 11, 2011
Im Sang-soo's The Housemaid either doesn't know what it wants to be, or is trying to be too many things at once. Few films can claim to be over-ambitious and half-hearted at the same time, but there you go.February 25, 2011
Writer-director Im Sang-Soo injects a certain sense of otherworldliness in the proceedings -- the final scene is straight from David Lynchland --- which may not make things mesmerizing, but does deliver a consistently odd angle.April 17, 2011
Exudes a surreal sense of deranged domestic privilege.March 04, 2011
The movie kowtows to the old truism that the rich are different - but it does it with a sardonic smile.