![]() ![]() We melt alongside her as she lights up with the first tingles of love, seeing herself as desirable for the first time through the sparkling eyes of Bina (Aasha Davis). We witness Alike quietly change out of her baseball hat and t-shirt on the train home to Brooklyn, donning a girly sweater in order to calm her parents’ suspicions (Kim Wayans and Charles Parnell). Humming with the electricity of repressed sexuality finally unbridled, Pariah follows teenage Alike (Adepero Oduye) on a raw and tender journey towards queerness and masculine gender expression. "Dee Rees grew into a force of nature over the last 10 years, but her debut feature - a gracefully rendered coming-of-age story that draws inspiration from her own - is still her defining statement. ![]() ![]() The result is a cheeky erotic thriller that subverts classical tropes with giddy injections of sapphic energy a soapy melodrama that feels dangerously alive with every frame." - ZS, IndieWire Re-teaming with his regular cinematographer Chung Chung-hoon, Park and his collaborators elevated the tawdrier elements of Waters’ novel to fetishistic heights - even strapping them in a harness and suspending them into mid-air when he had to. Kim Min-hee and Kim Tae-ri bring palpable chemistry to the roles of the captive Lady Hideko and her two-timing (or is it three?) maid Sook-hee, whose twisted relationship is as dynamic and unpredictable as Park’s titillating and characteristically operatic camera. "South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook delivered one of the 21st century’s most devious and ravishing queer films with The Handmaiden, which seamlessly ported the Victorian England events of Sarah Waters’ novel Fingersmith to Japanese-occupied Korea in the 1930s. ![]()
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