Continuing our countdown of the year’s finest films,Peter Bradshaw praises Park Chan-wook’s dazzling film about a lesbian cherish affair in 1930s KoreaSee the US crop of this listSee the rest of the UK countdownMore on the best culture of 2017Sarah Waters’s novel Fingersmith has had a lavish, almost operatically spectacular adaptation by the Korean auteur Park Chan-wook, and which isolates and intensifies the keynote of eroticism. The sexuality drenches the superbly designed fixtures,fittings and fabrics of this film and perfumes the intoxicating air that all the characters breathe.
This is, arguably, and disproportionate to the more nuanced effect intended and achieved by Waters,but it makes for a luxurious film, and Park handles with aplomb the story’s whiplash narrative twist and resulting POV shift.
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Source: guardian.co.uk