The maid
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The maid |
| Original title | 하녀 ; Hanyo |
| Country of production | South Korea |
| original language | Korean |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Im Sang-soo |
| script | Im Sang-soo, Kim Ki-young |
| production | Jason Chae |
| music | Kim Hong-jip |
| camera | Lee Hyung-deok |
| cut | Lee Eun-soo |
| occupation | |
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The House Maid ( Hanyo ) is a South Korean thriller from Im Sang-soo from 2010. The film is a remake of Kim Ki-young 's South Korean classic Hanyo - The House Maid .
action
The wealthy Goh family hires Eun-yi as the new housemaid to look after their little daughter and the mother who is pregnant with twins. Eun-yi quickly fits into the household and makes friends with little Nami. One evening when the landlord Hoon can't get his money's worth in the marriage bed, he seduces the new housemaid. A passionate affair begins.
The elderly housekeeper who sneaks through the corridors at night discovers the secret love affair. When she notices the first signs of a pregnancy from the host of Eun-yi soon afterwards, she lets in the calculating mother-in-law and the jealous wife. Because the mother-in-law fears for her daughter's inheritance through the birth of Eun-yi's child, one day she pushes Eun-yi off the ladder. At the hospital, Eun-yi learns that she is pregnant and wants to carry the child to term. Hoon agrees. However, the mother-in-law gives Eun-yi a poison and says it will help her with the pregnancy. The unborn child dies and Eun-yi wants revenge. She breaks into the family home and commits suicide by hanging herself and then setting herself on fire and burning herself in front of the entire family.
criticism
Overall, the film received good to very good reviews. Above all, the visual design is praised. Critic AO Scott praised the sensual images and the performers. Entertainment Weekly also praises the camera work. The film magazine Cinema gave the film an overall positive review, but above all praised the image. The film inspires with "masterful picture compositions" and is an "optically outstanding erotic thriller". The only point of criticism is the mostly emotionless approach.
Web links
- The maid in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The housemaid in the online film database
- The maid in the Korean Movie Database (English)
- The housemaid on HanCinema
- Rainer Gansera: Blood and Wine . In: sueddeutsche.de . April 20, 2011.
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of release for the housemaid . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2011 (PDF; test number: 127 172 K).
- ↑ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_housemaid/#!reviews=top_critics
- ↑ http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/movies/21house.html?ref=movies
- ↑ http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20458819,00.html
- ↑ Cinema , April 2011 edition. Page 68.
- ↑ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_housemaid/