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The Housemaid
Directed by
Im Sang-soo
2010
1h 47m
Not Rated
Drama
,
Thriller
6.4
69%
54%
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A man's affair with his family's housemaid leads to dark consequences.
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Cast of The Housemaid
Jeon Do-yeon
Eun-yi
Lee Jung-jae
Hoon
Seo Woo
Hae-ra
Youn Yuh-jung
Byeong-sik
Park Ji-young
Hae-ra's Mother
Ahn Seo-hyun
Nami
Hwang Jeong-min
Eun-yi's Friend
Moon So-ri
Obstetrician
Chae Tae-back
Herbal Medicine Shop Doctor (uncredited)
Chun Sin-hwan
Chief Secretary (uncredited)
Noh Sang-min
Driver (uncredited)
Jang Soon-kyu
Security 1 (uncredited)
Cho Yong-jae
Security 2 (uncredited)
Lim Hyun-kyung
Yoga Teacher (uncredited)
The Housemaid Reviews
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Sang-soo does with "The Housemaid" what many filmmakers do with remakes of influential genre films. He amps up the sex and smoothes down the stylistic edges of the original.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
This story is told by writer-director Im Sang-soo with cool, elegant cinematography and sinuous visual movements.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
The movie kowtows to the old truism that the rich are different - but it does it with a sardonic smile.
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
The graphic sex scenes radiate an uncommon heat, and Im can pull off a hugely effective shock when he wants to.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Im Sang-soo can't improve on Kim Ki-young's 1960 original, a jaIm Sang-soo can't improve on Kim Ki-young's 1960 original, a jarring and operatic cult favorite. Still, he does tweak the themes in intriguing fashion.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Writer-director Im Sang-Soo injects a certain sense of otherworldliness in the proceedings -- the final scene is straight from David Lynchland --- which may not make things mesmerizing, but does deliver a consistently odd angle.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
While the film grows increasingly preposterous in its final act, the enigmatic performances of Youn and Jeon carry the day.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
"The Housemaid" glitters coldly, with its marble surfaces and scheming eyes, as it builds to its dramatic, unexpected climax.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The secret weapon of "The Housemaid'' - the reason it works at all - is Jeon in the title role.
Los Angeles Times
Sheri Linden
Even with the piece wobbling between dark psychology and campy soap, the cast is compelling as it navigates the uncertainty.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
It is beautifully shot, with impeccable acting and visual detail. Now, if someone will just explain the brief, head-scratching coda.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Mr. Im's voluptuous visual palette combined with the dexterity of his cast is enough to hold your interest and, at times, to make you hold your breath.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
The Housemaid remains compelling mostly for Yun's performance, which is just as inscrutable, but ever-shifting-at times vaguely sinister, at others full of wisdom and quiet resolve.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
It's a deliciously perverse melodrama.
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
Exudes a surreal sense of deranged domestic privilege.
Slant Magazine
Jesse Cataldo
The elevation of the family from middle-class strivers to stratospherically wealthy jerks removes any trace of political specificity, but also elevates it to the chilly realm of the fairy tale.
Philadelphia City Paper
Sam Adams
You can grin all the way through, but the satisfaction turns to ashes by the end.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
But nothing could prepare me for what does indeed transpire, the final scenes having a grotesque opulence that is both entrancing and disgusting all at the same time.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
The situation continues to fester, the balance of power shifts back and forth among some wonderfully defined characters.
Movieline
Stephanie Zacharek
Im has a flair for highly controlled melodrama, and his visuals show a knife-edge precision: You could cut yourself on all these crisp shadows.
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