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Posted: August 20th, 2010.
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Its elegant, witty, tightly plotted and absolutely gripping. If Almodovar made a Hitchcock movie by way of Twin Peaks it would turn out like this. Empire, Damon Wise
An extreme melodrama that queasily fuses horror, heartbreak and humour. Another quality Bong hit. Little White Lies, Jonathan Crocker
The film is labyrinthine and deceptive, and not in a way we anticipate. It becomes a pleasure for the mind. Long after a conventional thriller would have its destination in plain sight, Mother is still penetrating our assumptions. Chicago Sun Times, Roger Ebert
Hye-ja is a single mother and her son is her world. Do-joon is 27 but has the mind of a child, he is naïve and completely dependent on his mother. When a young girl is found dead on the roof of a run down building, evidence is found that incriminates Do-joon and he is accused of the murder. An inefficient lawyer and an apathetic police force that closes Do-joons case too quickly inspire his mother to act on her ownto act as Mother in its purest form. Summoning all her maternal instincts and trusting no one, she sets out to find the killer and prove her sons innocence.
After completing only three feature films Barking Dogs Never Bite, Memories of Murder & The Host, writer and director Bong Joon-hos undeniable talent pushed him to the forefront of the Korean film industry. Memories of Murder was a gripping thriller about a series of unsolved murders in the 1980s. The Host followed a family as they dealt with a monster that rose from the Han River in the middle of Seoul. The films of Bong Joon-ho regularly, and brilliantly, break with convention, thanks to an imagination that is not confined to the accepted parameters of humour, suspense, or horror. Bong Joon-ho remains a director of intimacy even as he puts himself in the public eye, and despite holding the Korean box office admissions record (with 13 million for The Host), he chose to examine the simple figure of the mother for his latest film. Mother dissolves Korean social reality and family drama in a vat of larger-than-life imagination. Bong turns his camera on a figure well known to all, once again exploring it through unexpected cinematographic aspects.
Extras: The Making of Mother, the transformation of Hye-Ja Kim, cast and crew reflect, TRAILER
The Blu-ray is released on September 20th and sells on Amazon for £15.99 (RRP £22.99),with the DVD on Amazon for £10.99 (RRP £17.99).
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