![]() Every frame pulses with life, sometimes with blood. The result seems at once specifically English, specifically Korean and not of this astral plane like Park’s best work, it’s an expressionistic, at times surreal movie that skates along the knife-edge of dreams. ![]() The plot faintly evokes many Gothic thrillers (chiefly "Rebecca," "Jane Eyre" and "Gaslight") and quite a few examples of film noir as well Park’s source is Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith, a 2002 novel set in Dickensian England that was previously made as a 2005 British miniseries. It’s also as inspiring an example of East-West cross-pollination as cinema has given us, on par with Akira Kurosawa’s adaptations of Shakespeare, Dostoevsky and Dashiell Hammett in its ability to submerge a respected source while keeping its outlines visible. ![]()
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