The Housemaid (Hanyo) November 23, 2010

Part of the BAMcinématek series World Cinema Foundation

Directed by Kim Ki-Young
With Lee Eunshim, Kim Jin-kyu

(1960) 110min

“An utterly unpredictable work... The shocking nature of the film is both disturbing and pleasurable.” —Cahiers du cinéma

"Seminal 1960 mega psychodrama... a thrilling, beloved Korean-hyperbolic launch past Losey’s The Servant and toward Fatal Attraction." —The L Magazine

This perverse, totally deranged classic is a psychosexual thriller about a newly hired housemaid whose presence in a composer’s home wreaks havoc on his family when she sets about seducing and, in short order, killing off the members of the household. In Korean with English titles.

BAM Rose Cinemas
General Admission: $12
BAM Cinema Club members: $7

Official Website: http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=2740