The Handmaiden vs The Lost Moment

The Handmaiden has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 6.2/10 for The Lost Moment). The Lost Moment is the shorter watch at 1h 29m compared with 2h 25m. The Lost Moment is the older of the two (1947 against 2016). Both are drama, romance, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

The Handmaiden posterThe Handmaiden2016 VS The Lost Moment posterThe Lost Moment1947
The HandmaidenThe Lost Moment
Audience score★ 8.2/10★ 6.2/10
Year20161947
Length2h 25m1h 29m
GenresDrama, Romance, ThrillerDrama, Romance, Thriller
Country––
DirectorPark Chan-wookMartin Gabel
Main castKim Tae-ri, Lee Dong-hwi, Cho Jin-woong, Lee Yong-nyeo, Ha Jung-wooRobert Cummings, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead, Joan Lorring, Eduardo Ciannelli

Synopsis

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…

The Lost Moment

In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19th-century poet, Jeffrey Ashton, who disappeared mysteriously. Using a false name, Lewis Venable rents a room from Juliana Bordereau, once Jeffrey Ashton's lover, now an aged recluse. Running the household is Juliana's severe niece, Tina, who mistrusts Venable from the first moment. He realizes all is not right when late one night he finds Tina…

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