“I just got back from Korea. I lived there for all of 2024 to study the language for my second book that I'm working on. And to completely immerse myself in the language, I decided that I was only going to consume content that was in the Korean language. So I only listened to Korean music and I only watched Korean films. And there's something there called the Grand Bell, which is like their… I don't know, Cannes or their Oscars. And so I wanted to watch all of the films that had won Best Picture in the Grand Bell and learn a lot more about Korean cinema, which is so fantastic. And I'm surprised I never got around to watching it, but this movie called The Housemaid by Kim Ki-young. Yeah, it's pretty much any one of your favorite South Korean directors, they probably will have said that they were influenced by this film because it's very famously one of the greatest South Korean films of all time. And it's a part of this Martin Scorsese World Cinema Project box set, which seems to have a bunch of really fantastic films that I'm sure are all really great. And so, yeah, I'm excited to finally watch Kim Ki-young's The Housemaid.”
