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Mother
Bong Joon-ho
Categories: World Cinema
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Run time: 128 min. | USA
After only three films, including his cult sensation THE HOST (2006), Bong Joon-ho’s slightly bent and always inventive approach to genre filmmaking has pushed him to the Korean cinema forefront. Although MOTHER is a dazzling murder mystery, it’s also built on Bong’s reliable penchant for psychologically astute, character-centered storytelling. The single mother Hye-ja (played with fearless intensity by revered Korean TV star Kim Hye-ja) works at a pharmacy, and occasionally engages in illegal activities to make ends meet. Her raison d’etre, her mentally challenged beautiful son Do-joon (Won Bin), proves to be a constant source of anxiety. When a young teenage girl turns up dead, the police arrest Do-joon, pushing the boundaries of the mother-son relationship to the extreme. Beautifully shot by Hong Kyung-pyo, the film’s landscapes fuse with the heroine’s elemental force to overwhelming effect. Once again, Bong takes the conventional and transforms it into something extraordinary.

–Rose Kuo
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Cast & Crew
director
Bong Joon-ho
 
screenwriter
Bong Joon-ho
Park Eun-kyo
Cast
Kim Hye-ja
Park Eun-kyo
Won Bin
producer
Choi Jae-won
Seo Woo-sik
cinematographer
Hong Kyung-pyo
editor
Moon Sae-kyoung
music director
Lee Byeong-woo
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