The Director Of ‘Oldboy’ Sweeps Through Cannes With A 1930s Korean Adaptation Of ‘Fingersmith’

“Park had finished the book and agreed to the film before he realised the BBC had already made a series based on the source material. He was, he says, “deflated” for a while, but then saw an opportunity: this would be his chance to examine a period of his own country’s history that had always intrigued him.”