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Mother
Acclaimed Korean actor Kim Hye-ja is outstanding as a mother who will do anything to protect her son, in Bong Joon Ho’s fourth feature.
Director: Bong Joon-ho
Overview
An unnamed widow lives along with her only with son in a small South Korean town, scraping out a living selling medicinal herbs. Mother and son are plunged into a nightmare when the body of a young girl is discovered. Circumstantial evidence indicates the son's involvement, and he becomes the prime suspect during the sloppy police investigation, leaving the mother to fight to clear her son's name.
The fourth feature from cult director Bong Joon Ho (Parasite, Snowpiercer) is a startlingly original account of maternal feelings in all their terrifying intensity; blackly comic and exquisitely shot.
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