The Housemaid

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Dani G I liked the fact that they twisted the story a little bit, not doing a copy of the original 1960 film Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 09/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Brilliant photography. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Audience Member The best Korean movie. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review andy h It's got some nice nudity, but it's not engaging. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member The 2010 remake of the original movie seems bleak and unfulfilling. The film starts with a montage of a bustling street where we are introduced to the main character Eun-yi and her struggling life. But in the background of the montage, there's a huge foreshadowing of the end of the movie. A girl jumps from the roof of a restaurant and ends her life. Eun-yi is momentarily distracted from her work and expresses her desire to see the dead body. But she's scolded by her friend and roommate. Her life takes a different turn when she's hired by a rich businessman as a housemaid. His wife Hera is pregnant with twins and we can see this as she flaunts her baby bump haughtily throughout the movie. The husband, Hoon, who's pretty obsessed with vintage wines, can't seem to satisfy his sexual desires with his pregnant wife. That's when the most expected of the turn takes place, he goes up to the maid and the latter complies to have sexual intercourse. There's another important character that I forgot to mention. She's Byung-shik, played by Yuh-jung who's been nominated for Oscars recently for her magnificent performance in Minari. Her character in The Housemaid is that of an omniscient maid who's aware of every matter of the rich family. She discovers that the newly appointed maid is sleeping with her master. Instead of being loyal to the wife, she's loyal to the wife's mother. She makes a startling discovery. Thus ensues a series of events that changes the course of the film. It transforms from a movie to a regular Korean soap opera. The end, which is as much unfathomable as it's unexpected, leaves you with a sense of dissatisfaction. If there's a moral that you can take away from this movie, then it's the fact that nothing good comes when you sleep with an affluent guy who's already married. As always, Jeon Do-yeon gives a magnificent performance. Although it's not in the line with her ground-breaking performance in Secret Sunshine, you can assume that's it's the best she could've given from the script that she presented to her. Yuh-jung's character is that of an old lady who's worried about everything that goes around her and she excels at portraying it as such. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Joel C A decent story about a housemaid who starts working for a wealthy family and has an affair with the husband. She's what you would call a "home wrecker", though the blame goes both ways as the husband was the instigator and she was the immature reciprocator. The film is shot well with a good cast and nice locations and the food looks tasty as hell. Pretty wild ending but I don't think it was executed as well as they'd hoped. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/27/21 Full Review Read all reviews

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