THE HOUSEMAID

What starts out like a typical Korean melodrama transforms, in the hands of Kim Ki-Young, quickly into a breathtaking psychological thriller. This classic that is on every list of the best South Korean films of all times, tells the story of the Kim family hiring a housemaid. When the patriarch is seduced by this femme fatale the bourgeois dreams begins to unravel into a nightmare. Kim's film questioned conservative family values and class separation and had an impact that lasted right up to movies like PARASITE.

Restored in 2008 by the Korean Film Archive (KOFA), in association with The Film Foundation's World Cinema Project and HFR-Digital Film laboratory. Additional restoration funded by Armani, Cartier, Qatar Airways and Qatar Museum Authority.