The Housemaid | Hanyo: dir Kim Ki-young (1960)

A composer and his wife are thrown into turmoil when a housemaid becomes more than they bargained for; she has an affair with the husband, her pregnancy ends in a miscarriage, the maid becomes obsessed with killing the whole family starting with their older son. Soon the comfortable home becomes a physical and psychological battleground … This was the first and the last film role for Eun-shim Lee, who plays the housemaid; the film-going public hated her character so much that no director risked hiring her thereafter. A powerful recommendation, surely, for this Cinema Akil presentation shown alongside Farah Al Qasimi’s General Behaviour show. In Korean with English subtitles.