13 Films to See in October
October. It's the time of year when the leaves are changing color, election season is heating up, and the Cubs are doing whatever they can to avoid a World Series title. (Well, maybe not this year.) October also marks the return of serious movies to the cineplex as the first batch of this year's awards contenders are unveiled. And there are certainly some noteworthy releases due in the coming weeks, including this year's big Sundance winner, the latest films from Ava DuVernay, Park Chan-wook, Kelly Reichardt, and Terrence Malick, and 2016's highest-scoring film.
Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Thirst) returned to Cannes this year with this adaptation of Sarah Waters' novel Fingersmith. Transplanting the action from Victorian England to Korea and Japan and upping the explicit sex and violence, Park delivered an erotic thriller that impressed most critics at the festival. Starring Kim Min-hee (Right Now, Wrong Then), Ha Jung-woo (The Chaser) and newcomer Kim Tae-ri, Handmaiden finds the director comfortably back in the realm of the extreme after a minor stumble with 2013’s Stoker.
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