The Housemaid

The Housemaid

Infobox Korean Film
name = The Housemaid


caption = Theatrical poster to "The Housemaid" (1960)
director = Kim Ki-young [Infobox data from cite book |last=Frodon|first=Jean-Michel|editor=Steven Jay Schneider|title=1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die|year=2003|publisher=Barron's Educational Series|location=New York|language=English|isbn=0-7641-5701-9|pages=p.385|chapter=Hayno (1960) The Housemaid]
producer = Kim Ki-young
writer = Kim Ki-young
starring = Lee Eun-shim
Ju Jeung-nyeo
Kim Jin-kyu
music = Han Sang-gi
cinematography = Kim Deok-jin
editing = Kim Ki-young
distributor = Kuk Dong
Seki Trading Co.
released = November 3, 1960 (South Korea)
runtime = 90 minutes
language = Korean
country = South Korea
budget =
amg_id = 1:317173
imdb_id = 150980
hangul = 하녀
hanja = 下女
rr =
mr =

"The Housemaid" (하녀, "Hanyeo") is a 1960 black-and-white Korean film. It was directed by Kim Ki-young and starred Lee Eun-shim, Ju Jeung-nyeo and Kim Jin Kyu. It has been described in Koreanfilm.org as a "consensus pick as one of the top three Korean films of all time". [cite web |last=Paquet|first=Darcy|url=http://www.koreanfilm.org/kfilm60s.html|title=Darcy's Korean Film Page - 1960s|date=2006-08-09|accessdate=2007-05-08|work=www.koreanfilm.org|language=English]

Critical appraisal

In 2003, Jean-Michel Frodon, editor-in-chief of "Cahiers du cinéma", wrote that the discovery of "The Housemaid" by the West, over forty years after the film's debut, was a "marvelous feeling– marvelous not just because one finds in writer-director Kim Ki-young a truly extraordinary image maker, but in his film such an utterly unpredictable work."

Comparing the director to Luis Buñuel, Frodon wrote Kim is "capable of probing deep into the human mind, its desires and impulses, while paying sarcastic attention to the details..." He called "The Housemaid" "shocking", noting that "...the shocking nature of the film is both disturbing and pleasurable..." Frodon pointed out that "The Housemaid" was only one early major film in the director's career, and that Kim Ki-young would continue "running wild through obsessions and rebellion" with his films for decades to come. [cite book |last=Frodon|first=Jean-Michel|editor=Steven Jay Schneider|title=1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die|year=2003|publisher=Barron's Educational Series|location=New York|language=English|isbn=0-7641-5701-9|pages=p.385|chapter=Hayno (1960) The Housemaid]

Notes

External links

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* [http://www.asiandb.com/news/news.pfm?code=review&num=68&mode=view Review at asiandb.com]
* [http://filmbrain.typepad.com/filmbrain/2004/11/upstairs_downst.html Review at filmbrain.com]
* [http://www.koreanfilm.org/kfilm60s.html#housemaid Review at Koreanfilm.org]

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