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THE HAND-MAIDEN
Director: Park Chan-wook
Country/Distributor: South Korea, Amazon Studios & Magnolia Pictures
Opening: October 14
As universal and ancient as prostitution, the dynamic between master and servant always proves fertile ground for incisive social commentary. Transposing Sarah Waters's Fingersmith from Victorian England to 1930s annexed Korea, Park Chan-wook has fashioned a darkly comic treatise on the relationship between Korea and...