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Denton Record-Chronicle
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Weekly Review
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Sunday, October 30, 2016
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Prominent Korean filmmaker prizes universal stories
maker.
Set in 1930s colonial Korea, The
Handmaiden centers on the story of
two con artists — Count Fujiwara (Ha
Jung-woo) and a personal servant
named Sook-hee (Kim Tae-ri) — who
set out to defraud a wealthy Japanese
heiress (Kim Min-hee).
The film held its regional premiere
at Fantastic Fest in Austin last month,
where the air in the theater crackled
with an electric fever. It’s a spellbinder
in its purest form. Not only does it fea-
ture a complex plot with rich charac-
ters, but it’s full of twists and turns that
are executed with sharp precision.
One of the most commendable as-
pects to the film is its structure. It’s di-
vided into three parts to allow a full ren-
dering of the story as it’s filtered
through varied perspectives of its char-
acters.
By Preston Barta
Film Critic
Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Thirst)
no doubt stands apart from his counter-
parts. It’s apparent Park puts an abun-
dance of thought into his projects and
filmmaking technique. Everything has
a reason for its place and why it’s shown
the way it is, which could stem from his
former position as a film critic in South
Korea while he was trying to ignite his
directorial career.
His latest movie, The Handmaiden,
is the ultimate example of just how de-
termined and calculated he is as a film-
“The first chapter is told through the
eyes of Sook-hee, with the second chap-
ter being told through Lady Hideko’s
[Kim Min-hee] eyes,” Park said at
South Lamar’s Alamo Drafthouse in
Austin. “When it comes to the third
Magnolia Pictures
Director Park Chan-wook transplants Welsh author Sarah Waters Victori-
an-set novel “Fingersmith” tol930s-era colonial Asia, where a young Kore-
an woman hired to serve a Japanese noblewoman conspires to defraud her
in “The Handmaiden.”
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Grand dame
decorator
Field dies
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By Michael Granberry
The Dallas Morning News
Beverly Field, one of Dallas’ best-
known and most beloved interior de-
signers, died in her sleep on Wednes-
day. She was 88.
“She was ageless,” said fellow design-
er Michelle Nussbaumer, who met
Field years ago. “She was one of my fa-
vorite people. She’s in my heart, but I
can’t get her out of my head. I can’t stop
crying.”
She was both a vibrant personality
and gifted storyteller, Nussbaumer said,
recalling the time Field told her about
being among the hundreds of Dallasites
waiting to have lunch at the Trade Mart
with President John F. Kennedy on
Nov. 22,1963. They soon received word
that the president would not be coming,
having been shot in a downtown mo-
torcade moments earlier.
Nussbaumer, the owner of her own
showroom, Ceylon et Cie on Dragon
Street, credits Field with being “like a
mentor to me. We related on many,
many levels. When she decorated Nan-
cy Dedman’s house, I helped her with
the 19th century African currency col-
lection and the Chinese porcelains, but
our relationship was really not about
work. It was about friendship. We
spoke our own separate language to-
gether.”
Field and her rare talent are, Nuss-
baumer said, “something Dallas has lost
that can’t be recaptured. She was an
amazing person and an artist foremost.
She loved people. She didn't mince
words. Whatever she thought is what
she said.”
Jack Kinard, Beverly’s only sibling,
who lives in Houston, said his sister was
bom in Dallas, where she attended the
public schools. She graduated from
Woodrow Wilson High School. She be-
gan her college career at the University
of Texas, where she was a member of
the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She
later attended Southern Methodist
University, where she studied interior
design. In later years, she belonged to
the Junior League of Dallas.
Kinard, which was Beverly’s maiden
name, took pride in seeing his sister’s
designs featured on the covers of such
national magazines as Veranda and
Southern Living.
“I loved her very much,” Kinard said.
“She was a character. She was a lot of
fun. She was clever and always very ar-
tistic and very unique in her own kind
of way. She had a wide variety of friends
that included some of the richest people
in the United States and some of the
poorest. She knew no division between
the wealthy and people who were not
wealthy. She was interested in just
about everything in life. She saw beauty
in so many things.”
Field was so beloved, Nussbaumer
said, that it didn’t surprise her at all that
much of her Thursday was spent field-
ing phone calls of sympathy and sup-
port from such far-flung cities as Lon-
don, New York and Los Angeles. One
expression of condolence even came
from the granddaughter of Sir Winston
Churchill.
“She was still decorating right until
the end,” Nussbaumer said. “She didn't
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Photos by Lucinda Breeding/DRC
Kimberly Schaefer, a MFA student at Texas Woman’s University, decided to put together an exhibit of life-size nudes after an earlier group show in
which small nude drawings earned a big warning sign.
Artist goes life-size to examine discomfort with the body
By Lucinda Breeding
Staff Writer
cbreeding@ dentonrc. com
Kimberly Schaefer loaned a few drawings of
nude figures to an exhibit at Texas Woman’s Uni-
versity over the summer.
Then came the sign.
“The organizer called me and said ‘Oh, they want
to have a sign.’ I was like, ‘Oh, OK,”’ said Schaefer, a
graduate student pursuing a Master of Fine Arts de-
gree at TWU. “The signs were bigger than the sign
with the title of the show.”
The sign cautioned visitors who came to the tiny
gallery in the basement of the TWU Student Union,
reading “Warning: Nudity.”
“There’s nothing new about nudes in art,” Schaef-
er said. “If you ask anyone what their favorite work of
art is, and especially if its a classical work of art, it’s
going to have nudity.”
Schaefer has drawn nudes for a long time, and
she was working on a collection of life-sized nude
drawings in pencil when the summer exhibit went
up. She’s thought a lot about the strange relationship
Americans have with nudity and bodies. Schaefer
said she sometimes thinks people are more comfort-
able with depictions of highly sexualized bodies than
they are with artistic nude.
“I thought maybe that should be the direction I
go to examine this,” Schaefer said.
She examined the twinge of prudishness in a solo
show titled, you guessed it, “Warning: Nudity” The
show is in the very same space where her smaller
nudes raised an eyebrow — 010 Gallery.
“Warning: Nudity” includes five life-size draw-
ings of nude figures. Two stand facing the viewer,
one faces away from the viewer. One crouches and
the remaining figure is in a yoga pose. All of the fig-
ures are drawn in pencil on bright white paper.
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Kimberly Schaefer’s solo exhibition, “Warning: Nudity” includes life-size nude drawings and
chalk boards for viewers to leave their thoughts.
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