handmaiden

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"Art and politics are not concepts that are in conflict with each other. As long as they are artistically expressed, they are valuable," said the maker of "Oldboy" and "The Handmaiden".

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

After numerous twists and turns, the film arrives at an ending viewers will never see coming, which Shepard says was inspired by Korean cinema — particularly films like "Old Boy" and "The Handmaiden."

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2019

The Handmaiden transports the story from Victorian England to Korea in the 1930s, when the peninsula was occupied by Japan.

From The Guardian • Apr. 8, 2017

I spent The Handmaiden racing to keep up with the plot.

From Slate • Jan. 6, 2017

One such higher functioning was when I followed Larry O'Keefe and Lakla, the Handmaiden, out to what we believed soul-destroying death in a place almost as strange as this *; another was now.

From The Metal Monster by Merritt, Abraham