The Housemaid
When Opportunity Knocks, Answer at Your Own Risk
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 7, 2011
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: IFC Independent Film
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jung-jae Lee, Yoon Yuh-jung & Do-yeon Jeon | |
Performer: | Seo Woo, Park Ji-young & Ahn Seo-Hyun | |
Directed by | Im Sang-soo | |
Screenwriting by | Im Sang-soo | |
Composition by | Kim Hong-jip | |
Director of Photography: | Lee Hyung-Deok |
Entertainment Reviews:
THE HOUSEMAID is a lush, chilly entertainment that's a little bit Hitchcock and a little bit Sirk.
Movieline
[J]uicily watchable from start to over-the-top finish....Im has opted to subvert almost every element of that film's dramatic template.
Variety
[S]leek, erotic and suspenseful....The cast is compelling...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 3/5 --
Quick to show its characters' skin but less inclined to explore what lies beneath it.
Film Threat
3 stars out of 4 -- This story is told by writer-director Im Sang-soo with cool, elegant cinematography and sinuous visual movements.
Chicago Sun-Times
THE HOUSEMAID remains compelling mostly for Yun's performance...at times vaguely sinister, at others full of wisdom and quiet resolve.
A.V. Club
Rating: B --
Exudes a surreal sense of deranged domestic privilege.
Full Review
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Product Description:
A young woman becomes both benefactor and victim of a wealthy family's world of privilege and power in this drama from South Korea. Eun-yi (Jeon Do-yeon) is a beautiful but naïve young woman who is hired by a wealthy family as a housekeeper when their long-time domestic, Byung-sik (Youn Yuh-jung), needs help keeping up with her responsibilities. Hoon (Lee Jung-jae) shares his opulent home with his lovely wife, Hae-ra (Seo Woo), who is expecting a baby, and their daughter. While all seems to be happy between Hoon and Hera, the man of the house is clearly attracted to Eun-yi, and after he seduces her they begin having an affair. Hoon's indiscretion becomes obvious when Eun-yi gets pregnant, but he and his family believe Eun-yi is the one who made a mistake, not Hoon, and before long Hae-ra's mother (Park Ji-young) pays a visit to help the family take care of their dirty laundry. A re-imagining of Kim Ki-young's classic 1960 thriller, HANYO (aka THE HOUSEMAID) was an official selection at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
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