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DESCRIPTION:Join us on June 23 at 1 p.m. for our weekly Sunday screening se
 ries\, featuring director Park Chan-Wook's sublime erotic thriller "The Ha
 ndmaiden" (2016) in digital projection.\n\n \n\nTHE HANDMAIDEN| 2016 | DIR
 ECTOR: Park Chan-Wook | WITH: Kim Min-hee\, Ha Jung-woo\, Cho Jin-woong | 
 RUNNING TIME: 2H 25M | UNRATED contains sexual situations\, nudity\, brief
  violence\, strong adult themes | DIGITAL PROJECTION\n\n \n\nIn 1930s Kore
 a\, during the Japanese occupation\, a young woman is hired as a handmaide
 n to a Japanese heiress who lives a secluded life on a large countryside e
 state with her domineering uncle. But the maid has a secret.\n\n \n\nShe i
 s a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help 
 him seduce the Lady to elope with him\, rob her of her fortune\, and lock 
 her up in a madhouse. The plan seems to proceed according to plan until th
 e two women discover some unexpected emotions.\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n"Sookee\,
  a former pickpocket\, is secretly working for a scam artist who passes hi
 mself off as a rich Japanese count. Their plan is to make a young heiress 
 fall in love with him so he can marry her\, lock her away in an asylum and
  run off with her vast fortune. The heiress has thieves to the left of her
 \, creepers to the right\, and for the first 30 minutes of “The Handmaid
 en\,” you fear nothing but calamity is heading her way.\n\n \n\n"Then di
 rector Park Chan-wook pulls off his first reveal — one of the countless 
 twists this sensual\, gorgeously depraved movie springs on you. Almost all
  of Park’s previous pictures (“Old Boy\,” “Stoker\,” “Lady Ven
 geance”) relied on the element of surprise to weave their corrosive magi
 c. But “The Handmaiden" throws so many narrative curves at you that the 
 film becomes a cinematic puzzle-box\, with secrets nestled within secrets 
 within secrets.\n\n \n\n"Discovering them is huge fun. So is watching this
  grand\, elegant movie\, which finds Park in an unusually sunny mood. The 
 story’s themes — the victims of colonialism\, the oppression between c
 lasses\, the damage wrought by cultural sexism — are serious. But they
 ’re served up in a movie that makes its playful intentions obvious early
  on\, then starts batting the audience around in unexpected directions.\n\
 n \n\n"The film is best approached cold\, its turns of plot unspoiled. But
  more timid viewers should know Park has never been shy about depicting gr
 aphic sexuality in his work\, and he outdoes himself with “The Handmaide
 n\,” in which carnality plays such an important role it deserves its own
  screen credit.\n\n \n\n'“The Handmaiden” hails from South Korea\, but
  compared to most American movies of its scale and budget\, it might as we
 ll have been made on another planet. This may not be Park’s best or grav
 est picture. But it might be his most entertaining.' -- Rene Rodriguez\, T
 he Miami Herald\n\n \n\nThe screening will be introduced by Bill Cosford C
 inema manager Rene Rodriguez. Tickets are $5 and available at link above. 
 Students use code UMSTUDENT at checkout for free admission. Cane card must
  be shown at the door.
GEO:25.722709;-80.276887
LOCATION:Bill Cosford Cinema\, Dooly Memorial 225
SUMMARY:SUNDAYS AT THE U WITH MOVIES: "THE HANDMAIDEN" (2016)
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.miami.edu/event/sundays-at-the-cosford-with-mo
 vies-the-handmaiden-2016
CATEGORIES:Performance/Screening
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