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Hanyo (The Housemaid) (1960) -- K.-Y. Kim
Insane psychodrama
from 1960 Korea that sees a music teacher (for women working in a factory)
commit adultery with the dimwitted girl he hired as a maid to help his wife
(pregnant with their third child). True
to film noir convention, the noose tightens as the maid demands more and more
from him. And then there is the rat
poison, which commands a lot of Hitchcockian attention. To make things even
more dramatic, an incredibly insistent (and loud) score ramps up the tension
and punctuates the action (as does the occasional expressive effect). The whole thing even gets
"postmodern" by the end. A
cracker of a film.
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