The Handmaiden's reviews
Media reviews
The Hollywood Reporter
Expectations are fully met in Park Chan-wook?s exquisitely filmed 'The Handmaiden' (Agassi), an amusingly kinky erotic thriller and love story that brims with delicious surprises, making its two-and-a-half hours fly by.
Indiewire
No matter its overarching ridiculousness, The Handmaiden remains a hugely enjoyable dose of grotesque escapism from a master of the form.
The Verge
By replacing the class system of Victorian England with the dynamic of the occupier and occupied, Park has tapped into something uniquely complex about a chapter of history that is rarely explored. There is a deep, festering malady at the heart of The Handmaiden, exacerbated by idle fantasy, cultural projection and denial.
The Guardian
Exquisitely designed and sexually liberating.
Chicago Sun-Times
Park Chan-wook is a master of classy trash... There's artistry in his filmmaking, but also a lot of blood, plenty of sick humor and moments of sheer lunacy. 'The Handmaiden' ranks among his best films yet.
Variety
It?s sybaritic, cruel and luridly mesmerizing.
Vulture
The director?s nihilism has begun to seem reflexive, his shocks coming for shock?s sake.