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Mother
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"...a superb murder mystery, with twists coming thick and fast yet always at the right moments." –The Hollywood Reporter
Mother / Maedo
Bong Joon-Ho, 2009, South Korea, 129m
Convinced that her son has been wrongly accused of murder, a widow throws herself body and soul into proving his innocence. Bong Joon-Ho set Korea and Cannes on their respective ears three years ago with his madcap allegorical monster movie The Host (NYFF 2006). Now he has returned with an even more startling genre film. Mother begins as a cartoonish, almost slapstick comedy about a village idiot and his insanely doting, long-widowed parent (ferociously played by South Korea’s beloved televisual embodiment of mature maternity, Kim Hye-Ja). Midway through, the movie takes a serious turn as the 27-year-old child is railroaded into prison for the murder of a local school girl; then, in its last third, Mother unexpectedly spirals into a chilling psychological drama, as its unstoppable, devoted maternal protector appoints herself the case’s chief investigator and mutates into a cosmic force of nature, giving perhaps the performance of the year.
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