Screening Schedule5th October / 6:00pm
2009, 128min, 35mm, 2.35:1, Color, Dolby SRD
Directed by IM Sang-soo
Genre Thriller
Cast JEON Do-youn (Eun-yi), LEE Jung-jae (Hoon)
A naïve woman is hired by a wealthy bourgeois family as a housemaid, and soon all hell breaks loose.
The Housemaid is a slick satire on the class system. From sumptuous production design to operatic cinematography, the film captures a seemingly respectable but murderously cold, and hedonistic upper class household.
The Housemaid is based on KIM Ki Young’s 1960 classic film of the same title. However, Director IM Sang-soo (“A Good Lawyers Wife”) takes a greatly different and original approach toward the same story. An all star cast performs beautifully including Korea’s one and only JEON Do-youn (“Secret Sunshine”) and new superstar SEO Woo (“Paju”).
KOFFIA Staff’s remarks
‘Screened in competition for the Palme d’Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival’
International Film Festival
2010 Cannes Film Festival, Competition
2010 Melbourne International Film Festival