The Taste of Money
In a mansion on the outskirts of Seoul lives one of the richest families in the entire country. Yoon is the president of a powerful conglomerate, but it’s his wife Madame Baek that is really in control. Her secretary Young-jak, a handsome young man newly introduced to the world of power, deals with the families immoral activities. He makes sure that the Baeks’ influential American business partner has supply of hookers and waits for his own chance to make it rich. But everything changes when Madame Baek catches her husband having an affair with their Filipino maid and exacts her revenge by seducing Young-jak. Young-jak however has secrets of his own, as he finds himself drawn closer and closer to Nami, Madame Baek’s beautiful young daughter. But when the Baeks’ son is arrested and Madame Baek decides to further punish her husband by airing their dirty laundry in public, Young-jak is torn between his morality and a shortcut to a successful life. This companion piece to The Housemaid is another sexy and controversial erotic thriller from South Korean master Im Sang-soo
Reviews from Rotten Tomatoes
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A trite and tangled potboiler that, despite its polemical pretensions, is just a glorified Korean domestic drama with classier couture and shapelier champagne flutes.
Maggie Lee, Variety, 05.26.2012 -
This grotesque, luxe white-collar chamber drama from South Korea is often laughably bad.
David Jenkins, Little White Lies, 10.23.2013 -
As the sexual, financial and criminal shenanigans get ever more complicated, absurd and melodramatic, the film becomes increasingly tiresome; it's not even possible to enjoy its excesses in a 'so bad it's good' way.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out, 01.24.2013 -
For all the revelations about the way the rich operate, there's little juicy pleasure to be had in the proceedings.
Andrew Schenker, Slant Magazine, 01.23.2013
