Sentences with phrase «more handmaiden»

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I am chocolate's mistress, handmaiden, lackey... whichever you are more comfortable with.

And for all his vaunted political savvy, Lasher seems to have served as little more than a handmaiden to this effort.

Loosely based on (or «inspired by,» per the credits) Sarah Waters» 2002 novel Fingersmith, which was set in Victorian England, The Handmaiden gets progressively trashier and more overheated as it goes along, serving up multiple plot twists and replaying earlier scenes from a radically different perspective.

Following 2013's Hitchcockian horror - thriller Stoker, Park's latest continues to plumb female sexuality and the female experience of sex with men absent, and The Handmaiden is all the more effective when it maps these territories so seldomly shown in mainstream cinema.

But more than anything, The Handmaiden is just pure cinema, a dizzying, disturbing fable of love and betrayal that piles on luxurious imagery, while never losing track of its story's human core.

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The Handmaiden is more than an empty softcore drama full of scamming, backstabbing and wild sex: it's a work of art.

There are the dozen or so Cannes imports, including Andrea Arnold's «American Honey,» Park Chan - wook's «The Handmaiden,» Jim Jarmusch's «Paterson,» Cristian Mungiu's «Graduation,» Jeff Nichols» «Loving,» Olivier Assayas» «Personal Shopper,» Paul Verhoeven's «Elle,» and many more.

Andrea Arnold, with American Honey, attempted a reimagining of Jack Kerouac's masculine Beat Generation manifesto On the Road as a modern expression of a woman's sex - rebel freedom; with The Handmaiden, Park Chan - wook adapted Sarah Waters's novel Fingersmith by upping the agency of its femme fatales; and while Maren Adé's Toni Erdmann may be named after its male protagonist, it's much more about the effect he has on his daughter, an independent businesswoman.

On a much more technical level there's plenty to praise about The Handmaiden too: regular collaborator Chung - hoon Chung's cinematography is as gorgeous as ever; delicate where it matters and fantastically pulpy in equal measure.

Park Chan - wook is far more vital to cinema than an one - trick wonder and The Handmaiden is yet another solid entry into his filmography.

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It's maybe easier to swallow the future when it's framed as science fiction; stories like The Handmaiden's Tale (1985) perhaps more productively frame the potential problems of repressive societies, so we can learn to spot warning signs when they appear.