It’s ironic that “Poetry” would open with the image of a dead body floating near the film’s superimposed title, but the best of world cinema subverts viewers’ expectations. Director Lee Chang-dong (“Secret Sunshine”) does that through the entirety of this Cannes-blessed work from South Korea, even before it begins: Doesn’t a drama about a woman […]
Secret Sunshine
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The Housemaid
Case in point: “The Housemaid.” A remake of the 1960 film of the same name, it peeks into the household of a family so corrupt, so evil that … well, it will remind you that we’re all the same, no matter the hemisphere. Entering the Goh mansion as the new, second maid is Eun-yi (Jeon […]