The Handmaiden; Frantz: have a look at the film reviews of the month.
Directed and co-written by Park Chan-wook. 145 minutes
Japanese soldiers march past a group of women and howling babies on a street corner. A young woman hands over a baby, and another – her sister? – cries that it should be her leaving. Where? To become a maid in a distant country house. Is the sister selfless and anxious, or angry and jealous? This, though, is a film where little is what it seems to be.
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