Her Frame
The Handmaiden (2016): Lesbians Scamming Men and Staying Together is Cinema — Review
● Park Chan-wook
South Korea
2016
The Handmaiden (2016) is a South Korean erotic psychological thriller directed by Park Chan-wook. Beneath its elegant visuals, layered deception, and intense sexual tension, the film becomes a powerful exploration of exploitation, performance, female intimacy, and liberation from male control.
★ 4.5
★ 4.5
Journal
Guilty of Romance (2011): Oh how I love insane films so much! – Review
● Sion Sono
Japan
2011
Set within a surreal, neon-drenched vision of Tokyo, what begins as curiosity unravels into a delirious exploration of desire, power, and identity. In spaces where intimacy turns performative and pleasure curdles into obsession, the film traces a path from repression to excess, revealing freedom as something dangerously close to annihilation.
★ 4.5
★ 4.5
Spotted
Laplace’s Witch (2018): How can i explain that i love films like this? – Review
● Takashi Miike
Japan
2018
Not everything can be reduced to formulas and vice versa, not everything can be predicted through instincts, and Laplace’s Witch shows you they can coexist.
★ 3.5
★ 3.5
Journal
Wuthering Heights (2026): Let Them Yearn in Every Era – Review
● Emerald Fennell
UK
2026
Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights doesn’t preserve the book, yet it preserves the madness, the obsession, and the unbearable yearning at its core.
★ 4.5
★ 4.5
Journal
Saltburn (2023): Desire That Wants to Consume Everything – Review
● Emerald Fennell
UK
2023
A seductive and disturbing portrait of desire that mutates into control, wanting someone so badly you don’t just love them, you want to become them.
★ 5
★ 5
Feature
Chess of the Wind (1976): A Gothic Tragedy of Wealth and Ruin – Review
● Mohammad Reza Aslani
Iran
1976
A film the universe refused to lose, saved from its time and returned to the director’s own son, just to be celebrated globally.
★ 5
★ 5