Korean director Sang-soo Im’s The Housemaid, a delightfully tawdry and sensational account of class struggle and sexual misconduct in a rich household (as well as a remake of the 1960 feautre of the same name), first made waves at last year’s Cannes, where it competed for the Palme D’Or. Resident melodrama specialist Justine Smith joins Simon Howell to try and make sense of this insane fable.
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