KIM Ki-young’s THE HOUSEMAID Added to Criterion Collection

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Second Korean Film to Join Prestigious Label

The Criterion Collection, a high-end DVD and Blu-Ray distributor in the United States, famous for its programming of classic and foreign titles, has added a second Korean film to its esteemed lineup. Following the addition of LEE Chang-dong’s Secret Sunshine (2007) in 2011, KIM Ki-young’s seminal classic Korean film The Housemaid (1960) is set to join the collection in December.

The film will be part of the Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project boxset. Other films in the set will include Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Touki Bouki (1973), Emilio Gómez Muriel and Fred Zinnemann’s Redes (1936), Ritwik Ghatak’s A River Called Titas (1973), Metin Erksan’s Dry Summer (1964) and Ahmed El Maânouni’s Trances (1981). Among the extras included with the disc will be an essay by prominent Korean films scholar KIM Kyung-hyun and a subtitled interview with director BONG Joon-ho.

The Housemaid is frequently cited as on the best Korean films of all time. KIM remade his own film twice, in 1971 as Woman of Fire and again in 1982 as Woman of Fire ’82, while contemporary cineaste IM Sang-soo offered up his own version, The Housemaid, in 2010.

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