The Housemaid

The Housemaid

2016 · 105 min · VI · 6.3 (28 votes)
Dir. Derek Nguyen · Starring Nhung Kate, Jean-Michel Richaud, Kim Xuân, Svitlana Kovalenko, Huỳnh Kiến An, Rosie Fellner · Music Jerome Leroy
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When an orphaned Vietnamese girl is hired to be a housemaid at a haunted rubber plantation in 1953 French Indochina, she unexpectedly falls in love with the French landowner and awakens the vengeful ghost of his dead wife... who is out for blood.

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A suffocating, humid atmosphere hangs over this colonial gothic tale. It's a slow-burn descent into obsession and spectral vengeance, where forbidden desires clash with ancient resentments under a watchful, haunted gaze.

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