Mother
As in Memories of Murder, Bong economically steeps the viewer in the mindset of the rural community while retaining a slightly ironic distance and occasionally throwing curveballs.
Derek Elley, The Variety
Mother is more grotesque than heroic. Yet as freakish as she sounds, she comes across not as a carica-ture, but merely as a kind of profoundly misguided Everywoman. True, she's a bit of a nut. But whose mother isn't?
Michael O'Sullivan, The Washington Post
Director Bong Joon-ho has carved a career out of both relying on and breaking with cinematic conven-tions (as with The Host, a monster movie/family melodrama with an environmental bent). Here, he builds stylish Hitchcockian suspense around a singular character who’s hysterical in both senses of the word.
Annlee Ellingson, Moving Pictures
Original name: Madeo
Duration: 128 min
Dialogue: Korean
Subtitles: English
Age limit: K15
