The Housemaid (Hanyo) [Sub: Eng] 2010 Watch Free in HD

Eun-yi is an innocent young woman who is hired as an upper class family housemaid, and is tasked to take care of the family's small daughter and her pregnant mother, Hae-ra. Byung-sik is an older housemaid who has been with this family for a long time and holds many secrets. But soon enough, the master of the house, Hoon, takes advantage of his social position by slipping into the new housemaid's bed. Hoon's visits become frequent and Byung-sik reports the affair to Hae-ra's mother Mi-hee, who plots to give Hae-ra the control over her husband. Soon Eun-yi becomes pregnant by Hoon and wants to keep the baby. This is discovered by the family and Eun-yi is forced by Mi-hee to have an abortion despite the young woman's pleas to let her keep the baby and leave the house. Her forced abortion turns Eun-yi's already fragile mental condition for the worse and she decides to take the matter into her own hands...

Genre:

Drama, Thriller

Actors:

Do-yeon Jeon, Jung-jae Lee, Yeo-jeong Yoon, Woo Seo, Ji-Young Park, Seo-Hyun Ahn, Jeong-min Hwang, So-ri Moon, Jin-ah Kim, Yi-yeong Shim, Tae-back Chae, ...»

Director:

Sang-soo Im

Country:

South Korea

Release:

2010

IMDb:

6.4

Quality:

Duration:

107 min

Miami Herald

The graphic sex scenes radiate an uncommon heat, and Im can pull off a hugely effective shock when he wants to.

March 18, 2011

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Lessons of Darkness

Exudes a surreal sense of deranged domestic privilege.

April 17, 2011

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Tiny Mix Tapes

While it effectively sticks the knife into upper-class mores, it certainly has a been-there, done-that feel to it that the former does not.

October 04, 2017

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Chicago Reader

The situation continues to fester, the balance of power shifts back and forth among some wonderfully defined characters.

December 13, 2011

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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

...an echo of the 1960 film perhaps, but it's an echo that has been compressed and processed, run through the stomp box that is director Im Sang-soo's imagination.

May 15, 2011

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Minneapolis Star Tribune

"The Housemaid" scores on so many levels it's hard to know where to begin.

February 17, 2011

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Digital Spy

With the honourable exception of a film-saving Byung-sik, the characters are too unpleasant and two-dimensional to keep it together.

July 14, 2011

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The movie kowtows to the old truism that the rich are different - but it does it with a sardonic smile.

March 04, 2011

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Detroit News

Writer-director Im Sang-Soo injects a certain sense of otherworldliness in the proceedings -- the final scene is straight from David Lynchland --- which may not make things mesmerizing, but does deliver a consistently odd angle.

February 25, 2011

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Quickflix

Im Sang-soo's The Housemaid either doesn't know what it wants to be, or is trying to be too many things at once. Few films can claim to be over-ambitious and half-hearted at the same time, but there you go.

April 11, 2011

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Film Threat

Quick to show its characters' skin but less inclined to explore what lies beneath it.

October 25, 2011

New York Daily News

Im Sang-soo can't improve on Kim Ki-young's 1960 original, a jaIm Sang-soo can't improve on Kim Ki-young's 1960 original, a jarring and operatic cult favorite. Still, he does tweak the themes in intriguing fashion.

April 12, 2016

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