The Best Queer Thriller To Stream During Pride Month

The Best Queer Thriller To Stream During Pride Month

It’s rare that a book adaptation evolves to take on an entire life of it’s own, creating something unique that is on par with the original content, but that’s exactly what we get with Park Chan-Wook’s film The Handmaiden based on Sarah Waters novel Fingersmith. Where Waters spins a Dickensian tale set in Victorian England, Park transports the setting to Japanese occupied Korea, layering on imperial and cultural undertones that play into the powe…