The Housemaid
The Metrograph, Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York, Manhattan
About
A screening of the South Korean film The Housemaid, made in 1960 by director Kim Ki-young and starring Lee Eun-shim. The routine domestic life of a middle-class family is turned upside-down after a young woman joins the household to help with the chores—though what she does instead is turn the house into a boiling cauldron of lust. A mélange of melodrama, morality tale, noir thriller, and horror film that comes together to exercise a vice-like grip. The film was restored by the Korean Film Archive and Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project and is widely regarded as one of the country's greatest films.
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Critics
The critic praises a delirious, heightened melodrama called the director's masterpiece, admiring its bleak view of human motives and suspenseful, Hitchcockian style. Little is faulted, beyond noting the filmmaker as somewhat uneven.
Reviews: Time Out
Trailer
Showtimes
Sat 7 Nov
The MetrographLudlow Street 7, 10002 New York
Venue
The Metrograph is in New York City’s Manhattan.
Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York
The Metrograph 65 more events- Director
- Kim Ki-young
- Year
- 1960
- Runtime
- 108 min
