Mother
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February 13 - 15, 2024
Bong Joon Ho returns to small-town intrigue with this searing melodrama that also functions as a female-fronted whodunit featuring a career-best performance by veteran actress Kim Hye-ja. An NYFF47 selection.
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After he propelled the creature feature to new heights with The Host, Bong Joon Ho returned to small-town intrigue with this searing melodrama that also functions as a female-fronted whodunit. Convinced that her son has been wrongly accused of a young girl’s murder, a widow throws herself body and soul into proving his innocence. As damning a critique on class and corruption as Memories of Murder, Mother also stands out in Bong’s filmography as a laser-focused character study—veteran actress Kim Hye-ja gives perhaps the performance of her career—that’s as heartrending, thrilling, uncomfortably funny, and thoroughly unpredictable as anything he’s ever made. An NYFF47 selection.
“A masterpiece thriller from Bong Joon Ho, the unsettling menace and madness of a mother’s love.” —Lulu Wang
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