Forever Mine vs The Handmaiden

The Handmaiden has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 5.3/10 for Forever Mine). Forever Mine is the shorter watch at 1h 57m compared with 2h 25m. Forever Mine is the older of the two (1999 against 2016). Both are drama, romance, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Forever Mine posterForever Mine1999 VS The Handmaiden posterThe Handmaiden2016
Forever MineThe Handmaiden
Audience score★ 5.3/10★ 8.2/10
Year19992016
Length1h 57m2h 25m
GenresCrime, Drama, Romance, ThrillerDrama, Romance, Thriller
Country––
DirectorPaul SchraderPark Chan-wook
Main castGretchen Mol, Ray Liotta, Joseph Fiennes, Myk Watford, Vincent LarescaKim Tae-ri, Lee Dong-hwi, Cho Jin-woong, Lee Yong-nyeo, Ha Jung-woo

Synopsis

Forever Mine

A hotel cabana boy falls for the wife of a powerful politico. But when she confesses to the affair, her husband determines to end it forever.

The Handmaiden

1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sookee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to elope with him, rob her of her fortune, and lock her up in a madhouse. The plan seems to proceed…

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