Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

You'd better watch the original movie, 'The Housemaid' directed by Ki-Young Kim in 1960, which is one of the first and finest Korean movie I've seen so far. Compared to the original version, The Housemaid (2010) is really deceiving.The first hour is OK, but then it gets really boring, even though the acting isn't that bad. It's just a pity that such good actors' talent was wasted (see Do-Yeon Jeon in 'Sunshine (2007)' and Jung-Jae Lee in 'New World (2013)').Not to mention the ending, which reminded me Brian De Palma's 'The Fury', deceiving too.

The fey and slightly enigmatic Eun-Yi gets employed by an upper class family. Things get complicated. There's no single element in this story to make it stand out, although it is a crisply directed and well-acted drama. The Housemaid works on many levels, but ultimately the story isn't very engaging. I think the main characters appear a bit shallow, and the pacing too fast. Despite good acting, we see little in the way of character development. Eun-Yi's motivations are somewhat cryptic, and the decadently rich family are pretty much cardboard characters. I wish the director had gone for a subtler and more atmospheric approach. As it stands "The Housemaid" is a rather forgettable drama thriller, something less than the sum of its parts.

This was my first Do-yeon Jeon film and I wasn't sure what to expect but I was blown away by the intensity of the films bleak undertones. Do-yeon plays the part marvelously and there are other impressive performances from Seo-Hyeon Ahn and Yeo-Jong Yun.I sat riveted throughout while it twisted and turned down its sometimes too obvious narrative path.The rather theatrical ending was a bit of a surprise but didn't spoil the films impact too much.I have yet see the other Do-yeon Jeon films but based on this performance I can't wait.

If I could describe Hanyo with just one word, I'd say it is personality. Indeed, both the film and its characters have so much of it that they evolve beyond the viewer's expectations, unfolding themselves at their own pace and rhythm, subtlety telling their story.The settings are amazing, such as the house in which most part of the story takes place. However, there is also where some inevitable frontal collisions with reality occur, since there's not too many people in the world who could afford a house like that, and in case they could, they would not possibly employ just two maids to take care of it. Still, such an unrealistic approach reduces the number of characters in the story and therefore makes the drama even more intense and stronger.The actors are all great, and some of the performances brought to my mind names like Bette Davis, while the overall line of direction seemed close to the very best of Park Chan-wook (that's to say, Oldboy).Hanyo is a poetic, artistic and extremely well written and conceived movie that can boast to be amongst the best films recently made, if not of all times.