The Handmaiden (2016)
Chosen by me as I like to got to the cinema a lot and because Park is a great film maker.
Gorgeously made period melodrama from a master craftsman.
It begins as a slow, precise, interesting look at class and sexual tensions before inverting and becoming something else and the flipping again in a most crowd pleasing way.
Though mostly tightly plotted, it relies on some narrative conveniences to punish one character and seems to let another off scott free as everything unravels at the end.
The performances are terrific (by law you have to call actors in non-porn sex scenes this graphic 'brave'), the twists fun and the mannered direction perfect.
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