Stiles as Mrs. Stiles …. Demelza Randall Dainty as Dainty. David Troughton Mr. Ibbs as Mr. Stephen Wight Charles as Charles. Sarah Badel Mrs. Frobisher as Mrs. Charles Dance Mr. Christopher Lilly as Mr. Christopher Lilly. Laura Dos Santos Agnes as Agnes. Sam Graham Dr. Christie as Dr. Nick Lucas Mr. Huss as Mr. Wendy Morgan Mrs.
Cream as Mrs. William Oliver Dr. Graves as Dr. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Susan "Sue" Trinder is a fingersmith British slang for thief who lives in the slums of London with a baby farmer person who looks after unwanted babies Mrs. When a once rich man, who gambled all his money away, presents them with a scam that has a payout of 40, pounds, Sue signs on to swindle rich Maud Lilly. Maud is an orphan who lives with her uncle, but what exactly is going on in the Lilly house?
Sue will pose as Maud's maid so that Mr. Rivers the gentleman can get close to and eventually marry her. Their plan is to put Maud in the madhouse and take the money for themselves. All goes astray though when Sue falls in love with Maud. And the question is: Who can you trust? Published in , Fingersmith is a story of deception involving a pickpocket, a conman, a pornographer and an heiress.
Now it has been reimagined in film by Korean director Park Chan-wook , who has defied differences in culture, gender and media to create a complementary classic of erotic cinema.
The Handmaiden transports the story from Victorian England to Korea in the s, when the peninsula was occupied by Japan. In person, Waters seems about as far from madness and mayhem as it is possible to be. At 50, with six novels to her name, she lives the quiet life of a professional novelist in south London with her partner of many years, Lucy Vaughan.
Where Fingersmith is full of bodices and petticoats, the softest leather and the most lustrous silks, its author is most likely to be found in jeans. Four of her novels have been adapted for television and in the three Victorian romps — including Fingersmith — she made cameo appearances.
The fourth adaptation, The Night Watch , a chronologically reversed story set in the second world war, reflected the shift in her writing to more nuanced and sombre worlds. Her fifth and sixth novels have both been optioned for film, with her most recent, The Paying Guests , being adapted by Emma Donoghue , author and adapter of Room. But it is The Handmaiden that marks her first excursion on to the big screen, and she regards the ingenuity of the plotting with an almost parental delight, as the work of a younger, more playful self that the film has not so much mimicked as amplified, with its own ingenious twists and turns.
My brain was young and juicy in those days and I could do those kind of things. Waters began writing fiction while waiting to hear about a grant that would have enabled her to continue on the route to becoming a career academic. Already have an account? Log in here. By creating an account, you agree to the Privacy Policy and the Terms and Policies , and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango.
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