The Handmaiden is based on Sarah Waters's terrific novel Fingersmith.
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Nasim Pedrad, once of "Saturday Night Live," plays Jasmine's handmaiden.
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Same thing, just the handmaiden to Facebook kind of thing.
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Or steam things up with "The Handmaiden," new to Amazon Prime.
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It's a handmaiden to smugness and sanctimony, undermining its own goals.
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The 2016 drama "The Handmaiden" is a lesbian romance and revenge thriller.
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Pakistan's judiciary has played handmaiden to military dictators in other ways, too.
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Amazon Studios and Magnolia Pictures will release The Handmaiden in theaters October 21.
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I would be her steward into secular life, a handmaiden to her hegira.
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In its origins, then, public education was hardly the handmaiden of American industry.
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She'd come here to work on her own shit, not to handmaiden someone else's.
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" Inside Lawfare, the insult was converted into an ironic self-description: "Handmaiden of Power.
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Though it was adapted from Sarah Waters's book The Fingersmith, which takes place in Victorian England, The Handmaiden is set in 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea, as an ambitious Korean handmaiden (Kim Tae-ri) plots against her charismatic Japanese mistress (Kim Min-hee).
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In The Handmaiden, replaying scenes creates tension as we watch events from a new perspective.
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He has set out to portray Mr. Johnson as a handmaiden of the American president.
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The industry may be the handmaiden of globalisation but it is congealing into regional oligopolies.
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Nathalie Emmanuel, who plays Missandei (interpreter and handmaiden to Emilia Clarke's Daenerys Targaryen), told Metro.co.
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Khaleesi shares a bed with Irri, and while masturbating one night, accidentally wakes her handmaiden.
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Moira is a handmaiden whose sole purpose for living is to procreate, something she rebels against.
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Looking to rectify that, Pedrad's Dalia steps into the picture, as Jasmine's handmaiden and best friend.
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"Saturday Night Live" alumna Nasim Pedrad is also a nice comic addition as Jasmine's protective handmaiden.
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It is fitting that Mr Park's "The Handmaiden" deftly deals with many of the same themes.
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And if you're looking for a visually stunning psychological thriller, then you can't beat The Handmaiden.
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WITH "THE HANDMAIDEN," Park uses sex with the same deliberate force as he once used violence.
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Meanwhile, as Mr. Trump's handmaiden, Mr. Wheeler has done the reputation of his agency no favors.
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She's become rich and famous in the meantime for toadying for billionaire tech CEOs, she's their handmaiden.
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She called me her handmaiden and she never hesitated to let her displeasure with me be known.
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The novel is narrated by Offred, a college-educated white woman forced into service as a handmaiden.
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HS: I don't have a favorite, but I recently just watched The Handmaiden and was blown away.
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But The Handmaiden is the furthest thing you could get from an austere tale of gentle longing.
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Republicans have tried to paint him as a handmaiden of special interests, a charge he predictably rejects.
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Here, Pedrad plays Jasmine's handmaiden, Dalia, who, in an unprecedented twist, has a crush on the Genie.
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South Korea bypassed Park Chan-wook's "The Handmaiden" for "The Age of Shadows" by Kim Jee-woon.
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In some ways, because of its queer subtext, White Nights feels like a bootleg version of The Handmaiden.
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The Handmaiden had all your trademarks: sadism, masochism, revenge, love in defiance of a taboo, murder, and suicide.
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The Handmaiden isn't just one of the year's best movies; it's one of the year's most accessible movies.
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A brand new character is introduced in the new version: a handmaiden named Dalia, played by Nasim Pedrad.
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Heat up your Saturday night with "The Handmaiden," Park Chan-wook's sumptuous erotic fantasy, set in 1930s Korea.
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In retaliation, Monteverdi in 1605 published a statement maintaining that music should be the handmaiden of the word.
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Hardship was handmaiden to an examination of all that remained good, all that they should cling tight to.
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We were left with the Unsullied army commander Grey Worm admitting his weakness for Dany's handmaiden and adviser, Missandei.
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That film is The Handmaiden by famed director Park Chan-wook, for whom brutality and black humor are hallmarks.
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If you go into The Handmaiden thinking you know how it will play out, you'll most likely be wrong.
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THE HANDMAIDEN From South Korea, a drama about a Japanese woman in the 20133s who hires the wrong maid.
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" Roxanne McKee (Doreah) went from duplicitous Khaleesi handmaiden to ruler of Vega Claire Riesen in the Syfy series "Dominion.
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I would add that Muslims also need secularism to save religion from serving as handmaiden to unholy wars of domination.
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The plot unravels in three parts, and like Parasite, as The Handmaiden builds, it subverts everything you thought you knew.
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The Handmaiden, a lush adaptation of Sarah Waters's Victorian era-set novel Fingersmith, is a historical drama in three acts.
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Whereas The Handmaiden focuses on how sexuality can be weaponized, Spa Night explores how it can be sheltered and closeted.
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There is a deep, festering malady at the heart of The Handmaiden, exacerbated by idle fantasy, cultural projection and denial.
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" An article last Sunday about four film actresses with breakout roles this fall misstated the release date for "The Handmaiden.
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"On one hand, Sandberg and her ilk see feminism as the handmaiden of capitalism," they write early in the book.
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Dany's sapphic storyline had a similarly strange power dynamic with questionable consent, as she had sex with her handmaiden Irri.
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He might be known as an information anarchist, but by helping Trump become president, he became a handmaiden to authoritarianism.
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A search of my own name returns a post calling me "a witless handmaiden" for supporting trans people on Twitter.
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Directed by Park Chan-wook, the lesbian thriller followed a handmaiden who falls for the heiress she was hired to con.
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And Park Chan-Wook's The Handmaiden is completely off the hook, which is no surprise, coming from the director of Oldboy.
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This review contains plot details of "The Handmaiden" PARK CHAN-WOOK began his career as a critic rather than an auteur.
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In The Handmaiden, love doesn't just make you feel great — it also completely reorients your point of view on the universe.
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Imagine the erotic intrigues of The Handmaiden (2016) crossed with Barry Lyndon (1975), starring Rachel Weisz in a leather riding habit.
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A rebus, a romance, a gothic thriller and a woozy comedy, "The Handmaiden" is finally and most significantly a liberation story.
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Nicolas Winding Refn's 'The Neon Demon', Jim Jarmusch's 'Paterson' and 'Gimme Danger' and Park Chan-wook's 'The Handmaiden' are also Amazon's.
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Although the term handmaiden is no longer in favor, many people still behave in misogynist ways that treat women like handmaidens.
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Mr. Michel freely called himself the president's "handmaiden," but he warned Mr. Reagan off measures that he thought could not pass.
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This is the same handmaiden who's been with Cersei basically the entire time, we just didn't recognize her with her new 'do.
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Loneliness may be the handmaiden to depression and other psychological maladies, but here, it is the price one pays for being unique.
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After freely serving Daenerys and assisting her with handmaiden-like tasks, Missandei eventually earns her place as one of Daenerys's trusted advisers.
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Sansa's story this season is intertwined with that of Shae, a clever and perceptive prostitute who becomes her handmaiden, protector, and friend.
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An undecided voter who watched the debate had to come away with the impression that Clinton is the handmaiden of Wall Street.
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Thankfully, in the 2019 version she gets a human confidante in Dalia, her handmaiden who encourages her to give Aladdin a chance.
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Indeed, in many of the periods I've mentioned, Christianity was the handmaiden of political escalation, for both great good and great ill.
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And despite the warrior and handmaiden sharing a kiss and growing close emotionally, it wasn't clear whether they would ever consummate their love.
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Location: Jaipur, IndiaStarting rate per night: $410Rambagh Palace was built in Jaipur in 1835 as an opulent home for the queen's favorite handmaiden.
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The void is by turns enslaving and emancipating in "The Handmaiden," which plays with familiar form as a way to deliver unexpected meaning.
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It is my confessor, my keeper of lists, a provider of food and culture, an entertainer and educator and handmaiden to my children.
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In a paradox as strange as everything else about him, victory played handmaiden to a feeling of victimization: his own and the country's.
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Useful as this was in the acquisition of knowledge, the copy was considered inferior or at best only a handmaiden to imaginative art.
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Indeed, NBC had earlier reported that the president was looking to make the Justice Department his own legal handmaiden and have it prosecute Mueller.
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"The conservative movement was not intended to be a handmaiden to a single political party," the co-founders say in a letter to readers.
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One of my favorite movies of the past decade is Park Chan-wook's "The Handmaiden," a wild, often very funny and touching erotic thriller.
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Viserys & Doreah in "Cripples, Bastards, & Broken Things" Season 1, episode 4 Viserys Targaryen (Harry Lloyd) and Dany handmaiden Doreah (Roxanne McKee) took a bath together.
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The Handmaiden begins as the story of a young Korean pickpocket (Kim Tae-Ri) who tries to grift a Japanese heiress out of her money.
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At the very least, if you're burnt out on Valentine's Day rom-coms, well, let The Handmaiden be the answer to your anti-romance needs.
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The Handmaiden does this time and again, including a major mid-movie reset that throws the whole damn thing into reverse, and it's mind-blowing.
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According to Hickey, beauty, once the handmaiden of art, had been sacrificed on the altar of political correctness by a censorious ring of tenured apparatchiks.
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CJ Entertainment released the original Sunny, and more recently, the company teamed with Amazon Studios for the U.S. release of Park Chan-wook's The Handmaiden.
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The violence in "The Handmaiden" tends to be more restrained than in some of his other work, more psychological and rather less blunt and bloody.
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It's one of the rare times you want to look away in "The Handmaiden," which Mr. Park has turned into an emporium of visual delights.
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" Riofrancos, a Providence College political scientist, argued that the results show an appetite for the state to be something more than a "handmaiden to capital.
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Ms. Lind is well matched by Alison Wright's shrewd Emilia, Desdemona's handmaiden and Iago's wife, who has a will as sharp as her acerbic tongue.
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Such playfulness guarantees nothing in itself, and a bald account of "The Handmaiden," as of many Nabokov novels, suggests little more than a chilly contrivance.
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Several of her novels have been made into British miniseries, and her book The Fingersmith was turned into the gorgeously rollicking 2016 film The Handmaiden.
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In this version, the audience is first introduced to Jasmine already in disguise and using the name of her handmaiden Dalia (actually played by Nasim Pedrad).
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The Handmaiden, the latest film from Park Chan-wook, the South Korean auteur who brought Oldboy into the world, is as wild as you might expect.
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That said, and again, I'm not a handmaiden to tech but these companies would not have done those things without Elon doing what he was doing.
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The Handmaiden is one of the better arguments in recent memory for the idea that shifting a story's context and setting can change everything about it.
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But in the show, Dany has only one vaguely queer experience with Doreah, a sex slave-turned-handmaiden who was hired by her terrible brother Viserys.
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Here we see the vague outlines of how the Apple Watch could become vital, or at least ubiquitous, as the handmaiden to another data-hungry industry.
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"The Handmaiden" opens with a young Korean woman, Tamako (Kim Tae-ri), handing over a baby to a sobbing familial group in a poor, mud-sodden neighbourhood.
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Like Park's other work—the grim Oldboy, for example—The Handmaiden is a movie that deserves a content warning for its intense depictions of sex and death.
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The Handmaiden is a movie we should all have heard more about three years ago, but maybe now's our chance to revisit just how good it was.
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Its handmaiden is a cult of "historical memory", which is at best an oxymoron (memory is subjective and personal) and at worst a pretext for rewriting history.
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Park's other films take this obsession to stomach-churning extremes, suffused as they are with violence and brutality, but The Handmaiden eschews outright gore for other horrors.
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But if you forced me to pin down one list-topper, it'd be Park Chan-Wook's The Handmaiden, which I wrote up for our fall movie preview.
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By longstanding tradition, as Professor Hartman reminded his readers, literary criticism was seen as a handmaiden of literature — an adjunct whose sole raison d'être was literature itself.
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The initial details are sketchy but promising: Bong has signed on as a producer, alongside other Snowpiercer producers, including The Handmaiden and Oldboy director Park Chan-wook.
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The Handmaiden is a twisty, sexy thriller that never goes in the direction it's telling you it is, which makes for one hell of a fun ride.
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"A rebus, a romance, a gothic thriller and a woozy comedy, 'The Handmaiden' is finally and most significantly a liberation story," Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times.
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Screenshot: GizmodoNext we had a look for critically acclaimed 2017 South Korean film The Handmaiden—present and correct on both platforms, for the same rental and purchase prices.
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THR also reported that the Guy Ritchie-directed movie had cast Nassim Pedrad in the new role of Mara, a friend and handmaiden to Princess Jasmine (Naomi Scott).
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Based on the Victorian-era novel Fingersmith but set during the Japanese occupation of Korea, The Handmaiden is a revenge story rooted in class tension and political conflict.
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The Handmaiden is filled with twists and turns, and for me to tell too much more would be robbing you of much of the fun of this story.
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From all reports, The Handmaiden rides the line between those extremes by being tasteful, arty, trashy, and surprising at the same time, like so many of Park's films.
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The United States was the handmaiden to the successful election in November, when Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy, won in a landslide.
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Last year, he released his newest film, "Aghassi," or "The Handmaiden," an adaptation of Sarah Waters's 18603 novel "Fingersmith," which has been hailed internationally as an erotic masterpiece.
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"The Handmaiden" was such a phenomenon that Yongsan CGV, a massive multiplex at one of Seoul's most popular malls, has dedicated one of its theaters in Park's honor.
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So be it: The Handmaiden, Chan-wook Park's outrageous lesbian psychodrama about thievery and art and loyalty in Japanese-occupied Korea, is positively Shakespearean in scope and splendor.
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Portman, as the Queen and her look-alike handmaiden, plays the former with Kabuki makeup and an undefinable accent and the latter in a conventional, not particularly enthralling fashion.
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Like my little pregnancy handmaiden, he would crack the door to our darkened bedroom, prop my head up on a pillow, and gently set a plate in my lap.
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Aya Cash and Gillian Jacobs star as K Street queens (well, one is a queen; the other is more the handmaiden type), wooing a straight-arrow politician (Eisa Davis).
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Aladdin and his monkey, Abu, are joined by a magic carpet and a blue genie who grants wishes and also develops a crush on Jasmine's handmaiden, Dalia (Nasim Pedrad).
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At Gallery 224, Anna Freimoth, who has previously satirically literalized terms like arm candy and sugar tits, surrounds a handmaiden in blue, as she reaches out towards the viewer.
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"A rebus, a romance, a gothic thriller and a woozy comedy, 'The Handmaiden' is finally and most significantly a liberation story," Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times.
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As in The Handmaiden, Farewell My Concubine is based on the notion of found family—in this case, two orphaned boys who grow up in the same Chinese opera training camp and find stardom in their professional union—but unlike The Handmaiden, the queerness of one of Farewell My Concubine's characters is left an unspoken secret until the film's very end, and is used to ruin him until he's driven to suicide.
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As we say goodbye to Missandei — after last night's brutal closing scene — we're remembering the handmaiden, translator, and speaker of 19 languages for the signature looks that we'll surely miss.
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In the clip, Smith sings the popular tune as Massoud rides in on a giant elephant for the benefit of Scott and her trusty handmaiden Dalia, played by Nasim Pedrad.
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The show is conversant with my own politics of addressing the growing economic disparity and the wave of privations caused by the ideological hegemony of capitalism and its handmaiden, neoliberalism.
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In this way, it's reminiscent of Chinese filmmaker Chen Kai Ge's Farewell My Concubine, which came out in 1993 but takes place in the same cultural moment as The Handmaiden.
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Its other honorees included releases that, according to the website Box Office Mojo, opened in a limited number of theaters: "Krisha" (26 theaters), "The Handmaiden" (125) and "Certain Women" (138).
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He even gets a romantic subplot of his own, as he falls for Jasmine's handmaiden Dalia (Nasim Pedrad, bringing pitch-perfect comedic line delivery to her role) — a strong story update.
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Atwood's book, which once again became a best-seller after the election, tells the story of Offred (Elisabeth Moss in the series), a so-called handmaiden in the Republic of Gilead.
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The biggest danger for Mr Corbyn is that he will be defined by history as a handmaiden of Brexit if he doesn't get off the fence and try to prevent it.
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And as in Fingersmith, The Handmaiden is about what happens when a female con artist conspires with a male con artist to pose as a servant to a rich young heiress.
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There is something inescapably Western about Park Chan-Wook's The Handmaiden, even though its adaptation of British novelist Sarah Waters' Fingersmith moves the setting to Japanese-colonized Korea in the 1930s.
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In the film's first act, he enlists the help of Sook-hee (Kim Tae-Ri), a lowborn pickpocket, to take a job as Hideko's handmaiden, and convince her to wed Fujiwara.
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Last night, Twitter noticed that the handmaiden who knocked on Cersei's door was sporting pretty much the exact same haircut, which begs the question: Is "The Cersei" King's Landings' hottest new 'do?
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Sabrina's favorite teacher from the mortal world has a bit of an identity crisis; she becomes possessed by the Devil's Handmaiden Madam Satan and ends up trying to tempt Sabrina into darkness.
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The Handmaiden is slated to premiere at Cannes, which kicks off next week, and will later head to theaters and then Amazon Prime in the US, following Amazon's acquisition earlier this year.
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Korean director Park Chan-wook's lesbian romance slash crime drama The Handmaiden proved one of the biggest surprises at this year's Cannes Film Festival, and the buzz has only built since then.
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That is why the climax of "The Handmaiden" really is a climax, with a pair of lovers interlinked—under a full moon, naturally—and joined, at last, by the bonds of truth.
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Park Chan-wook's "The Handmaiden" won a BAFTA, and last year "Burning" [directed by Lee Chang-dong] was a part of the shortlist [for what was then the foreign-language film Oscar].
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On the surface, The Handmaiden looks like a simple thriller about two con artists who attempt to scam a rich heiress by marrying her and having her committed to an insane asylum.
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Both works are partly set in Japan, and while The Handmaiden is openly about the love and friendship between two women, White Nights winks at viewers, then walks away, never consummating the encounter.
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On the Amazon Prime side of things, the original Robocop is coming (ignore that remake, too), along with Almost Famous, The Handmaiden, the first season of Amazon's new series American Playboy, and others.
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Amazon also has US rights to Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon, Jim Jarmusch's Paterson, Park Chan-wook's The Handmaiden, and the aforementioned Gimme Danger, which will all screen at Cannes this year.
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Despite its owner being a man who made his fortune trading in seductive women, this museum was hardly a man's lurid collection of ancient erotica à la The Handmaiden that one might expect.
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As Apple talks to insurance companies and others about sharing the information, the device could become "the handmaiden to another data-hungry industry," John Hermann wrote in a column for the Sunday magazine.
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"'The Handmaiden' is just pure cinema, a dizzying, disturbing fable of love and betrayal that piles on luxurious imagery, while never losing track of its story's human core," wrote The Atlantic critic David Sims.
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In a maddeningly elliptical conversation at a café table outside, a young assistant, Man-hee (Kim Min-hee, of the 2016 film "The Handmaiden"), is fired by her boss, Yang-hye (Chang Mi-hee).
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And while she has shown plenty of compassion (freeing slaves, forgiving Jorah), she responds to slights with often shocking cruelty (crucifying masters in Meereen, locking her handmaiden Doreah in the vault, torching the Tarlys).
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Botticelli shows Venus, the Roman goddess of erotic love, emerging from the sea foam where she was born, while winds blow roses into her hair and a handmaiden waits to drape her in silk.
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No chips in sight, as if she didn't just set an entire city on fire while riding on the back of a dragon... and even without her dearly departed handmaiden Missandei around to help out.
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A show cagily loaded with negations, it is ultimately, like any good via negativa, also an affirmation — and one that further solidifies Siena's authority in a medium still too often considered the handmaiden to painting.
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Anxiety that Facebook had become a handmaiden to the conservative movement lay at the root of Cambridge Analytica blowing up into a global scandal in 2018, two years after we knew most of the details.
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In order to sway Hideko into marrying him, Count Fujiwara installs Sook Hee as Hideko's handmaiden, the plan being to steal Hideko's large inheritance and have her committed involuntarily in a mental institution once he's done.
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Here's a key exchange between him and handmaiden Hugh Hewitt, who tried to rescue Trump from his own gaffe only to be fully rebuffed: HH: Last night, you said the President was the founder of ISIS.
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Fingersmith is a great novel, but The Handmaiden plays less like a direct adaptation and more like a really terrific cover version — one that shows you something new in a work of art you already loved.
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Which makes the arrival of two groundbreaking works that do just that this year—veteran Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook's The Handmaiden and Korean American filmmaker Andrew Ahn's debut feature Spa Night—feel like a revelation.
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Park Chan-Wook's The Handmaiden, an erotic thriller with viscera-soaked twists, helped open the festival, along with Denis Villeneuve's Arrival, an alien film that's more Contact than the world-destroying blockbusters of the past decade.
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From Antoine Fuqua's much-anticipated opening night blockbuster, The Magnificent Seven, to Park Chan Wook's psycho-sexual romantic thriller, The Handmaiden, here's a look at some of the movies set to premiere at this year's TIFF.
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The Cornwells' coup this time was to secure Park, a celebrated art-house director known for films like the violent revenge fantasy "Oldboy" and the erotic thriller "The Handmaiden" who has never previously worked in television.
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Blue Is The Warmest Color and Park Chan Wook's The Handmaiden were both mainstream critical darlings widely criticized by queer women for perpetuating the male gaze and their aggressively graphic yet bafflingly unrealistic depictions of lesbian sex.
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Republicans and conservatives are rejoicing at the decision of Aetna to abandon most ObamaCare exchanges, but does the GOP really want to become the party of higher insurance premiums, working as the handmaiden of insurance industry lobbyists?
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Still, it's clear that Parasite's success has people talking about Korean cinema and figuring out what other films they should explore, and that makes it the perfect time to revisit just how much more attention The Handmaiden really deserved.
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Not that anyone could ever accuse Park of being anti-obscenity, especially after watching The Handmaiden, in which characters stick everything from bells to knives in their orifices, and at one point simulate sex on a suspended wooden mannequin.
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That's what we witnessed over the weekend, when the obsequious handmaiden otherwise known as the vice president flew at taxpayer expense to his home state of Indiana for a game between the Indianapolis Colts and the San Francisco 49ers.
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Jafar promises to be his biggest role yet in the U.S. Pedrad, who's recently been seen on the shows People of Earth and New Girl, is cast as Mara, Jasmine's friend and handmaiden who serves as the film's comic relief.
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Set in Japanese-occupied Korea in the 1930s, Park Chan-wook's "The Handmaiden" chronicles an elaborate plot between a swindler and a pickpocket to seduce and con a Japanese woman of her inheritance from under the nose of her authoritarian uncle.
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Other movies that will compete for the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, include "Loving," by the American director Jeff Nichols; the South Korean director Park Chan-wook's "The Handmaiden;" and "The Neon Demon" by the Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn.
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But the beauty of #DemThrones was how black viewers both excoriated and embraced "Game of Thrones," reading it for filth while lovingly adopting its minority characters as heroes — like Daenerys Targaryen's commander Grey Worm and her adviser and handmaiden, Missandei.
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Those who disagree with that conclusion are mostly the people alleging that the Fed is Wall Street's handmaiden, regularly caving to government pressure in the run-up to elections, and the key architect of the (four-year) election business cycle.
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Hol up...so ur telling me bc this Handmaiden costume is sexist and women aren't having it so the costume gets taken down, BUT costumes exploiting & stereotyping American Indian women that go missing frequently &in some cases also murdered.. are still ok?
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Most alterations to the plot, such as making the regime more brutal—the command "if thine right eye offends thee, pluck it out" is literally enforced upon one rebellious handmaiden—make the mood more tense and the characters' quiet obedience more understandable.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A British queen, a group of nerdy kids, a defiant handmaiden and a heart-tugging trio of siblings vie for the top prize on Sunday when the Primetime Emmy Awards will crown the best in a booming era of television.
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Shepard drew on a number of influences, including "The Keepers," a documentary series that involves sexual abuse at a Catholic school, as well as the work of the directors Park Chan-wook (particularly his erotic thriller "The Handmaiden") and Brian De Palma.
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If they're not, though — as was the case in Nazi Germany or communist Russia — then science becomes a handmaiden to the most awful crimes in human history; and almost always, those crimes are committed in defense of some grand project to improve human society.
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According to Deadline, actress Michelle Gomez will take on the complicated role — complicated because Wardell gets possessed by the devil's handmaiden, Madam Satan, and ends up turning into a dark and manipulative influence whose sole motive is to lure Sabrina down the Path of Night.
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A gripping and sensual tale of two women — a young Japanese Lady living on a secluded estate, and a Korean woman who is hired to serve as her new handmaiden, but is secretly plotting with a conman to defraud her of a large inheritance.
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And as the show's central fable unfolds — about a princess and her adoring handmaiden (portrayed by Ms. Worsham) who dare to venture into the forbidden woods beyond their sequestered kingdom — videos (by Alex Basco Koch) are projected of images assembled out of a toy chest.
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Most well-known films with same-sex sex scenes are directed by guys—The Handmaiden, Blue is the Warmest Color, The Hunger, Mulholland Drive, and even Carol, albeit that had a script written by a lesbian woman and was directed by a gay man.
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In it, a young Korean woman and a con man conspire to bilk a young Japanese heiress out of her considerable fortune by having the young woman pose as the heiress's new handmaiden — so she can assist in the con man's seduction of the heiress.
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Recently, we've seen lesbians on the big screen in a tear-jerker romantic drama ("Carol"), a girls' trip movie ("Rough Night"), a twisted period drama ("The Favourite"), a classic period drama ("Collette"), a sports biopic ("Battle of the Sexes") and a revenge thriller ("The Handmaiden").
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The new film adaptation of her 2009 novel The Little Stranger, directed by Room's Lenny Abrahamson, follows in the footsteps of 2016's The Handmaiden by distilling one of Waters's books down to its essence and emerging with something even more glorious than the source material.
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We might just have definitive proof that Cersei really did make her servants get the same haircut as her, and it's all thanks to Vanity Fair, who spotted something surprising about the handmaiden who made an appearance during Sunday night's episode (creating an awkward moment with Jaime).
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Where to watch: Amazon PrimeSynopsis: Set during Japan's occupation of Korea in the 1930s, Park Chan-wook's "The Handmaiden" centers on a woman (Kim Tae-ri) who falls in love with the Japanese heiress (Kim Min-hee) whose inheritance she has been hired to help steal.
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Like Blue is the Warmest Color, The Handmaiden lets you get swept up in the romance between two women as they grow closer, until it's time for consummation, at which point it becomes painfully obvious that we are watching a film directed by a straight male.
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Facing Mitt Romney, who was easily caricatured as a country club Republican, Mr. Obama battered him as a handmaiden for the wealthy and criticized his opposition to the auto bailout, which lifted Mr. Obama with white union Democrats in car-making communities around Youngstown and Toledo.
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And first-run films this fall will include studio fare like "Doctor Strange" and "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," as well as specialty titles like "The Handmaiden" and the rock documentary "We Are X." Ticketing will be available for the theater at 8 a.m.
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Under the watch of his sister, Elisabeth, handmaiden to Hitler, this philosopher who deplored German nationalism ("Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, that is the end of German philosophy") and anti-Semitism ("I will have all anti-Semites shot") was refashioned into an intellectual architect of the Third Reich.
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Certainly that need not be the case: 2016's The Handmaiden, an adaptation of Sarah Waters's Fingersmith, is one recent triumph of the genre, pairing the exhilaration of plot-driven intrigue with incandescent, queer female desire stunningly rendered by actresses Min-hee Kim and Tae-ri Kim.
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We've even got a few brand new Aladdin characters as well, namely Nasim Pedrad's Dalia, who is a handmaiden and best friend to Princess Jasmine (because the original film only featured one female character — Jasmine — so it's about time we got at least one more woman in Agrabah).
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The first part is from the point of view of young handmaiden and former pickpocket Sook-Hee (charismatic newcomer Kim Tae-ri), the second from the rich Japanese heiress and would-be victim Lady Hideko (Kim Min-Hee), and the last from the scheming Count Fujiwara (Ha Jung-Woo).
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In particular, a scene in White Nights, where Lee wakes up in the middle of the night to help Seo through some indigestion by pricking her finger on a needle, seems to speak to a scene in The Handmaiden, when Sook-hee helps Lady Hideko grind an overly sharp molar.
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We are far, far away from the traditional left attitude that welcomed technological change as the handmaiden of abundance and increased leisure — or, for that matter, from the liberal optimism that permeated the culture of the 1950s and '60s, the optimism that offered up tantalizing visions of flying cars and obedient robots.
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Once belittled by custodians of jazz history, who'd scorned her as a handmaiden to her late husband John Coltrane's genius, an imitator at best; the story of Alice Coltrane's own genius began to be written, with first a trickle, then a flood of praise for her extraordinary, exultant, almost impossibly beautiful music.
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" The most cleareyed image in Mr. Gruen's memoir is very likely that of Mr. Gruen himself — "writer, critic, journalist, bon vivant, gadfly, busybody, father, husband, queer, neurotic workaholic," as he memorably put it, going on to describe himself as "handmaiden to the stars, reveler in reflected glory and needy intimate of the super-famous.
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Based (loosely) on Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, Head Over Heels is a farce in which Pamela (Bonnie Milligan) falls in love with her handmaiden Mopsa (Taylor Iman Jones); Philoclea (Alexandra Socha) enters into an illicit affair with the shepherd Musidorus (Andrew Durand), disguised in drag as an Amazon warrior; and everyone ultimately falls somewhere on the LGBTQ spectrum and rejects the gender binary.
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But this new, six-episode TV version boasts two major elements that make it worth checking out: director Park Chan-wook, whose films (including The Handmaiden and Oldboy) neatly bridge the gap between deep character studies and genre exercises; and actress Florence Pugh, who turns in a marvelous performance as a young woman drawn into a web of espionage and intrigue.
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Hence the minutiae that you will bear away from "The Handmaiden," whether you like it or not: Kouzouki's blackened tongue, which he uses to moisten a paintbrush; a naked figure, inked onto paper so thin that it can be rolled and smoked; and, best of all, Sookee reaching softly into her mistress's mouth, with a thimbled finger, to file down the sharpness of a tooth.
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Waters knows her way around period-set genre stories (her novel Fingersmith was adapted into the irresistible 2016 erotic thriller The Handmaiden), and The Little Stranger wraps fascinating ideas about class, gender, and the nature of evil into a ghost story set in postwar Britain; in the hands of director Lenny Abrahamson, who directed 2015's Room, it could be something really special. —GK
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We soon met three women, dressed like laborers, who were, in fact, the three Fates, spinning the thread of life and deliberating Dido's future: the sweet soprano Anna Christy, who later sang Belinda, Dido's sister and handmaiden; the rich mezzo-soprano Sarah Mesko; and the amazing Ms. Clark, as the Fate who makes the final calls on people's mortality, and who later stole every scene she was in as Purcell's Sorceress.
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This isn't the most compelling trailer of the week, but I love the story behind it: the film was shot at the Cannes film festival while Isabelle Huppert and Kim Min-hee were there to promote other movies (Elle and The Handmaiden), meaning it was likely a rushed shoot (the film comes in at barely over an hour long) and maybe just done to give all these actors an excuse to work together.
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