Pecha Kucha on Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (1989)

A videogessay review of The Handmaiden (2016) dir. Park Chan-wook.

References:
Music:

Adagio, D Minor.

Voiceover:

My voice. Reading Lucky’s tirade from Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.

Films:

Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden (2016)

Dušan Makavejev’s Sweet Movie (1974)

Jean Rollin’s Fascination (1979)
Walerian Borowczyk’s Immoral Women (1979)
Walerian Borowczyk’s Immoral Tales (1973)

Quotations:

Blanchot, Maurice. “Sade”. In Maruis de Sade: The complete Justine, Philosopohy in the bedroom, and other writings. Richard Seaver and Austryn Wainhouse (Eds). Grove Press, New York, 1965, pp. 66-110.

Bradshaw, Peter. “The Handmaiden review - outrageous thriller drenched with eroticism”. Guardian. 13 April 2017. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/apr/13/the-handmaiden-review-park-chan-wook

Videographic Epigraph entitled “Crazy Love?” from Peter Greenaway's The Book, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989). 

Submitted for Art and Cinema class at Université Paris Cité. 2025. 

Voiceover Videographic Essay on Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (1989)