The Housemaid (1960)

Cautiously Recommended

South Korea

Feature Film

Original Title: 하녀

Writer/Director: Kim Ki-young

Cinematographer: Kim Deok-jin

Composer: Han Sang-ki

Cast: Lee Eun-shim, Kim Jin-kyu, Ju Jeung-nyeo, Um Aeng-ran, Ahn Sung-ki, Kang Seok-je, Ko Seon-ae, Na Jeong-ok

Overcome with exhaustion after moving into a new home, and struggling to cope with her domestic duties, a pregnant woman, who spends most of her time diligently working at her sewing machine, encourages her music teaching husband to employ a maid, who proceeds to make their lives a misery, in Kim’s visually arresting and campily entertaining if generally rather overblown thriller. Iain.Stott