The Handmaiden
Where the DNA of The Handmaiden travels
Films that shaped it
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Polanski’s films were a huge inspiration for me during my early film career. He’s one of the masters who has impacted me the most. I also love his early films like Repulsion, and The Tenant. These films, especially in their use of space to explore psychology, were very influential.
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In The Handmaiden, I tried to take a three-part structure and use it to reveal different layers of truth, not unlike Kurosawa’s Rashomon or Clouzot’s Les Diaboliques.
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Park said that the film was influenced by a pair of thrillers from master French filmmaker Claude Chabrol: 1968’s 'Les biches' and 1969’s 'La Femme Infidèle.'
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In the Realm of the Senses, in the case of The Handmaiden it’s not so much a direct influence in terms of story, but it was just so important in depicting sexuality within a film.
