Directed by Park Chan-wook The Handmaiden is hyper-everything. It's a Tarantino-esque revenge thriller told from multiple points of view with several characters conning each other. The film is neatly broken up into three parts, each one defined by a particular scheme which becomes further undermined until the end, like a series of dominoes falling. It's … Continue reading The Handmaiden (2016)
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The Grifters (1990)
Directed by Stephen Frears What a strange little ride. I think I love The Grifters purely because of how odd, twisted and inspired it is. The 1990 film feels like a colorized version of something from the 1940s, complete with the film noir tropes, femme fatales, Elmer Bernstein music, misdirection, corrupted souls and mistaken identities. The … Continue reading The Grifters (1990)