![]() ![]() Nam Soo-kee (Kim Tae-ri) starts out as an illiterate pickpocket who fakes her way into a job as a personal maid to Lady Hideko Izumi (Kim Min-hee), a wealthy Japanese heiress who has spent her life confined to her estate by her book-collecting ogre of an uncle (Jo Jin-woong). Instead, this nasty, perverted, and highly enjoyable erotic thriller is the most ferocious movie about matters of the heart since Dangerous Liaisons.Īdapted from Sarah Waters’ novel Fingersmith, the script shifts the setting from 1860s London to 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea. However, you figure the guy who made Oldboy and Stoker isn’t going to make a tender little love story. It’s a big deal, then, for a director of Park Chan-wook’s stature to make The Handmaiden, a film centered on a lesbian romance, which is playing in Grapevine and slated for expansion to Fort Worth. Homosexuality is legal in South Korea, but a majority of people still disapprove, so it seldom comes up in either polite conversation or cinema. Korean movies don’t talk about homosexuality. In 2010 he was elected to the governing Council of the. He qualified as an Auctioneer and Chartered Surveyor and was the Honorary Auctioneer of the Magic Circle from 1992 to 2011.From 2006 until 2011 Freedman's company Magic Management marketed the Magic Circle Headquarters and won several awards including 'UK Venue of the Year' and 'Venue Team of the Year'.In 2003 Freedman's hands were insured with UK insurance company Royal and Sun Alliance for UK£1 million.This is described by the IBM as "a special award to recognise members who have given twenty-five or more uninterrupted years of service to the organisation." Trivia In 2008 he was awarded the Order of Merlin by the International Brotherhood of Magicians. He was promoted to Membership of the Inner Magic Circle in recognition of his outstanding abilities as a performer. Awardsįormerly a Director of the Magic Circle Foundation, Freedman has been awarded the title the Magic Circle Close Up Magician of the Year twice, most recently in 2014. Freedman advised on "traditional magic methods" to allow Woolford's vision of a four-minute single camera shot with no image manipulation, no editing and no CGI. He was also consulted to advise on the short film ‘ARK’, written by Charlie Williams and directed by Mal Woolford that was accepted for inclusion in the Palm Springs International Shortfest. The show, which included magic tricks which viewers could learn and perform themselves, won an Intermedia-Globe-Silver-Award at the WorldMediaFestival (2010) and was also broadcast by the German children’s network KI.KA. In 20 James Freedman and Martyn Rowland created magic effects and taught presenter Thomas Brezina magic tricks for the Austrian children's TV show Trickfabrik broadcast on ORF. James Freedman choreographed all the pickpocket sequences and taught Robert Sheehan the skills needed for his role as a street thief. In 2010 Freedman advised on ‘Dip’ written by Simon Lewis and directed by Lisa Gornick a crime drama about a street pickpocket played by Robert Sheehan. In an interview following the UK premiere, Kroto joked that Freedman "is the man who taught Fagin to pick pockets and Gandalf to perform magic!"He worked in London and on location in Serbia for The Brothers Bloom a 2008 film directed by Rian Johnson. ![]() ![]() He also trained Sir Ian McKellen to portray a stage magician for the short film directed by Stephen Kroto. In 2012 he also taught pickpocket skills to Helena Bonham-Carter and Sacha_Baron_Cohen for their roles as Monsieur and Madame Thenardier in Les Misérables directed by Tom Hooper. He was asked by Roman Polanski to teach Sir Ben Kingsley (for his role as Fagin) and other actors the art of picking pockets for the movie Oliver Twist (2005) and is listed in the credits as a Pickpocket Consultant. Norton said that "James is one of the ultimate all-stars in his field today". ![]() He also acts as a Magical Advisor inventing magic tricks and illusions for feature films, television shows, theatre and stadium productions.įreedman was the Magic Consultant for the 2006 film The Illusionist starring Edward Norton and Aaron Johnson both of whom he taught sleight of hand and stage illusions. ![]()
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