A torrent of sexual obsession, revenge, and betrayal is unleashed under one roof in this venomous melodrama from South Korean master Kim Ki-young.

Immensely popular in its home country when it was released, The Housemaid is the story of the devastating effect an unstable housemaid has on the domestic life of a bourgeois, morally dubious music teacher, his devoted wife, and young children. Kim’s engrossing, finely calibrated tale of class warfare and familial disintegration has been hugely influential on the new generation of South Korean filmmakers.

Notes by David O’Mahony