Kill Your Darlings vs The Handmaiden
The Handmaiden has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 7/10 for Kill Your Darlings). Kill Your Darlings is the shorter watch at 1h 43m compared with 2h 25m. Kill Your Darlings is the older of the two (2013 against 2016). Both are drama, romance, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Kill Your Darlings
The Handmaiden| Kill Your Darlings | The Handmaiden | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.0/10 | ★ 8.2/10 |
| Year | 2013 | 2016 |
| Length | 1h 43m | 2h 25m |
| Genres | Drama, Romance, Thriller | Drama, Romance, Thriller |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | John Krokidas | Park Chan-wook |
| Main cast | Michael C. Hall, Elizabeth Olsen, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Zach Appelman, Dane DeHaan | Kim Tae-ri, Lee Dong-hwi, Cho Jin-woong, Lee Yong-nyeo, Ha Jung-woo |
Synopsis
Kill Your Darlings
A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
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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