DVD: The Housemaid
UPDATE: The release of The Housemaid has now been put back to 23 January 2012. (Now, who knows! Amazon say 13 February, Axoim say this is incorrect and the film is, quote unquote, “off the schedule”.) Again, this is partly due to ongoing problems created the Sony Warehouse fire which happened during the London riots back in August.
Axiom films are set to release Im Sang-soo’s fantastic The Housemaid on UK DVD (finally!) on 24 October 2011 (postponed from 26 September). A favourite at Cannes Film Festival, The Housemaid is a stylish, sexy thriller about an innocent young woman caught in the twisted web of a rich family’s games.
Eun-yi (Cannes Best Actress winner Jeon Do-youn of SECRET SUNSHINE) is hired as a nanny in an lavish mansion by businessman Hoon (Lee Jung-jae) and his very pregnant wife, Hae-ra (Seo Woo). When Eun-yi is seduced by the father of the house, she becomes the unwitting victim in a series of traps laid by the women of the house – Hae-ra, her villainous mother (Park Ji-young), and their seemingly loyal but increasingly bitter housekeeper (Yun Yeo-jong). Intensely erotic and fiendishly entertaining, THE HOUSEMAID builds to an unforgettable climax as Eun-yi must outwit them and escape their schemes to protect her sanity – and her life – from the vicious family.
