If You Liked “Oldboy,” Watch “The Handmaiden”

Con-artistry, class warfare, and plot twists abound in this instant classic

Photo by Bagus Pangestu from Pexels

I have studied film and literature my entire life, film by proxy as I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, just over the hill from Hollywood, California where the movie industry was in the very air I breathed. My aunt worked for a producer at Columbia pictures…