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This film is written by Jeong Seo-kyeong.
Park Chan-wook transposes Sarah Waters’ Victorian thriller, Fingersmith. It’s his most intricate narrative puzzle—a three-part sumptuous drama—that transforms a simple story trope: A handmaid dupes her employer. Historians would call them roommates.
In 1930s Korea, a girl is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress who lives a secluded life on a countryside estate. But the maid has a secret: She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler to help seduce the Lady and steal her fortune.
Reviews
"Park Chan-wook, whose attention to voluptuous detail — to opulent brocades and silky robes, luscious peaches and creamy shoulders — turns each scene into an invitation to ooh, aah and mmm. This is a movie that tries to ravish your senses so thoroughly you may not notice its sleights of hand." – The New York Times
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