Introduction

1001 movies you must see before you die. Must I? Let's see.

My name is Dagmar and I am from Czech Republic. I have a bachelor's degree in screenwriting. I study movies. I watch movies. I write about movies. I kind of mention movies a lot. I even cross stitch things I like in movies. My views on cinema could be described as peculiar. My views on the "1001 movies" list as complicated. It happens a lot that I get the feeling it wasn't that necessary to see some particular movies. Sometimes I'm really grateful I saw them. And there are also times when I don't watch any new movies for six months straight. And they keep adding new movies every damn year so I might have to never die to watch them all.

What's the score right now?
606/1245 - That's 639 left to see.
I started this experiment on July 3rd 2009 and the latest update was made on April 19th 2023.

You can find the full list here.

Monday, 14 December 2020

The Handmaiden (2016)

 Agasshi
South Korea
directed by: Chan-wook Park
written by: Chan-wook Park, Seo-kyeong Jeong + Sarah Waters (book)
starring: Min-hee Kim, Tae-ri Kim, Jeong-woo Ha
seen on 14th December, 2020

I'm not sure. Chan-wook Park is indeed extremely talented when it comes to adapting books against their grain and crossing the lines behind the lines considered uncrossable (and his Thirst will forever be one of my most favourite films), but he does not completely win me over with this one. It is not subversive enough to be actually different from the stories read within the story, but at least the whole effort seems to be sincere and genuine (or I chose to see it that way). 


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