Review of The Handmaiden (2016) by David Edelstein for New York Magazine (Vulture) — 27 Oct 2016
I still don’t know how a gore-meister like Park Chan-wook could have made the year’s most irresistible romance. Maybe it’s that he hates oppression — chauvinist, colonialist, Sadean — so deeply that in hoisting his old boys on their own petards, he has discovered the wellsprings of love.
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This review of The Handmaiden (2016) was written by David Edelstein and published by New York Magazine (Vulture) on 27 Oct 2016.
The Handmaiden has generally received very positive reviews.
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