Tag: The Handmaiden

The Handmaiden | DVD Review

Although it may have gone home empty handed following its premiere in competition at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, Park Chan-wook’s latest sumptuous melodrama,...

The Handmaiden | Review

Women in Revolt: Chan-wook’s Sumptuous Period Drama Wrestles with Romance, Revenge Following his 2013 English language debut, Stoker, South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook returns to...

The Conversation: Top 10 Technicians Mid-Year Ranking

With directors and/or actors usurping most of the credit and acclaim for lauded film features, we chose to highlight a few of the behind-the-scenes...

Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann, Aquarius, Elle & Paterson Top our 2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel

Yesterday's George Miller led jury pronounced Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake as the best from the 2016 competition of twenty-one films, and they gave...

2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4: Park Chan-wook Gets into Seduction Mode with “The Handmaiden”

Following 2004's Old Boy (Grand Prix) and 2009's Thirst (Jury Prize), this is Park Chan-wook's third trip to the Cannes comp and technically tenth...

The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell – The 2016 Edition

Tis the season for fevered wish lists and constantly fluctuating prognostications concerning the soon to be revealed 2016 program at the Cannes Film Festival....

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