South Korea
2009/35mm/129mins MA 15+
SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 8.30 PM – Dendy
SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER 4.00 PM – Dendy
Wicked, dry, and entertaining, this exceptional drama explores the essence of motherhood in a murder mystery with a difference.
Veteran actress Kim Hye-ja plays a single mother with 27-year-old son Do-Joon, who is her reason for existence. When a young girl is found dead and he is accused of her murder, Do-Joon’s mother summons all her maternal instincts and – trusting no one – sets out to find the killer and prove her son’s innocence. South Korean director Bong Joon-ho steadily increases the intensity of the drama, allowing Kim Hye-ja to show us – in a truly mesmerizing performance – both the caring and the cruel sides of a woman engaged in a life or death struggle.
2010 Academy Awards selected as Korea’s official entry for Best Foreign Language Film category
Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard Premier
“Bong Joon-ho channels Pedro Almodovar in his fourth feature, an operatic melodrama” Mike Goodridge, SCREEN DAILY
“MOTHER is a genre film that both honours conventions and weaves around them whenever possible. Bong makes MOTHER a classic gumshoe tale, with red herrings and interrogations and moments of sublime suspense” Noel Murray A. V CLUB
MOTHER
(MADEO)
Writer/Director Bong Joon-ho Producer Thomas Leyers
Cast Kim Hye-ja, Won Bin, Jin Goo Print Source Madman Australia
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