The Korean art-house director Park Chan-wook — best known for his baroquely violent revenge sagas (“Oldboy,” “Lady Vengeance”) and an outré erotic thriller (“The Handmaiden”), all ...

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It's certainly a more successful take on one of John le Carré's most elusive works than George Roy Hill's miscast 1984 film version.