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The Housemaid / Ha-nyeo Series: Infernal Machines: The Films of Kim Ki-Young Director: Kim Ki-young, Country: South Korea, Release: 1960, Runtime: 108 “From the point of view of a Westerner, the discovery of a film like The Housemaid, more than 40 years after it was made, is a marvelous feeling––marvelous not just because one finds in writer-director Kim Ki-young a truly extraordinary image-maker, but because his film is such an utterly unpredictable work. So Luis Buñuel had a Korean brother!”—Jean-Michel Frodon, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die One of the unquestionable masterpieces of Korean cinema, The Housemaid tells the story of Dong-sik, a married music teacher whose student arranges for a young woman to work as his family’s maid. When Dong-sik rebuffs the student’s physical advances, the housemaid begins her own, ultimately more successful seduction. She becomes pregnant, and thus a bizarre ménage à trois forms between Dong-sik, his wife and the increasingly assertive housemaid. An emotional rollercoaster in which characters’ stated desires so often contradict their actions that roles and positions are constantly in flux, The Housemaid was an enormous success upon release, and remains a popular Korean classic.

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