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Actor Kim Hye-Ja, known to be the prototypical mother figure in Korea, stars in Bong Joon Ho’s psychological thriller as the titular “mother” who takes extreme measures to free her only son, imprisoned for the alleged murder of a teenage girl. Kim is brilliant in her subversive depiction of a Korean mother, going against the grain of the types of characters she’s played since the 1960s, all popular and familiar to Korean audiences. Heavily driven by the mother’s agenda, the film’s narrative constantly shifts and reroutes its direction, unfolding new elements derived from the mother’s subjective, instinctual investigation in which the line between truth and deception is neither crucial nor corroborated.

Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation. 

2009 | 129 min | South Korea | Color | Korean | Rated R | 35mm

DIRECTED BY: Bong Joon Ho

WRITTEN BY: Bong Joon Ho, Park Eun-kyo

WITH: Kim Hye-ja, Won Bin, Jin Goo, Yoon Jae-moon