The Handmaiden - Arvostelut

...all of its disparate pieces are assembled with such care, and the characters written and acted with such psychological acuity, that you rarely feel as if the writer-director is rubbing the audience’s nose...

...this film is simmering with genuine sexual tension. There’s explicit sex but more importantly, there’s longing, affection and intimac...

Park has created a film of enthralling fetishistic delights and imagery (...) that will be seared into your brain.

...a dazzlingly complex psycho-sexual thriller where names and identities shift as often as outward allegiances.

Park Chan-wook’s sumptuous erotic thriller is among his boldest works to date.

De utallige overraskelser og den præcise historiefortælling holdt mig på kanten af sædet i alle filmens 144 minutter.

Imponerande erotisk thriller.

Park Chan-wook er ikke bange for at ty til store twists og bombastiske skift i tone, men takket være et mesterligt greb om filmsproget, bliver det aldrig forceret.

Pirrende erotik afløses af blodige rædsler i Park Chan-wooks raffinerede trekantsdrama.

…ett spännande och mycket intensivt drama som man upplever med hela kroppen och verkligen alla sinnen.