Mother (2009) Madeo

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«... what Mother serves us with is a dose of 2000s pungent scent, specifically of Lee Myung-Bak's Korea. ... If Memories of Murder brimmed with chaotic violence borne out of the "glorious" 80s, the invisible violence against the weak displayed in Mother is all the more painful - perhaps because many people are living it as we speak.
... Mother is many things which remind of Bong's older exploits, but also shows the possibility of a new direction, elements which could seriously come into play in a few years... »

«Less visionary than Bong's 2003 serial-killer mystery, "Memories of Murder," but with the same skillfully natural evocation of a rural community hiding dark secrets, "Mother" will prove a tougher sell than Bong's hit monster movie, "The Host," but should get a warm embrace from upscale auds, despite having been unjustly denied a competition berth at Cannes.»

«Bong likes to build his stories around ordinary people. ... His manner is operatic: reactions, facial expressions, sound design, even the weather (see the use of rain in Mother) tend to be over the top. Even Won Bin's stupefied look is rapturous in its dullness. Typically for Bong, there are plenty of small jokes at the expense of movie cliches - misrecognitions, comically inappropriate reactions - jokes that make you wince as you laugh.»

«Whilst similar in nature ‘Mother’ stands tall in its own right as a great example of well paced film making. Whilst many will find the first half of ‘Mother’ boring, those familiar with the movies of Bong and to a certain extent Hitchcock, well find the mix of drama and thriller an almost perfect blend.»

«Tracking through the story with her provides thrills and shocks and more than a bit of bone jarring violence in the rather graphic fashion known as the modern way. But there's quite some mastery here in telling the story and Korea's soft underbelly, a nation on the collective make and out to get what it can, gets more than a little attention.»

«Knottily plotted and blackly comic, it plays out like some lost Edgar Allan Poe story retooled as a Douglas Sirk–style portrait of maternal suffering.»

«Mother suffers somewhat from being a melodrama in which the strongest emotion stems from the director's absurdist scorn for his creations. Still, there's no denying the power of Kim's central performance, or Bong's tremendous stylistic control over the film's shifts in mood and gallery of dancing fools whose dark stories seem perpetually about to topple into farce.»

«For all of Bong’s motifs both narrative and aesthetic, what is most impressive is his ability to seamlessly orchestrate so many different modes of expression and still retain the overall feeling of unity. ... It’s an equally bold counterpart to the film’s opening, but more importantly it’s a stunningly composed shot from a director who isn’t afraid to risk the previous two hours on an oblique, uninhibited shot. And personally, I think it all pays off.»

«It is the kind of movie that leaves you spent, stunned and even devastated. Aside from being an unusually powerful thriller blessed with the maybe-twice-in-a-lifetime great performance from a veteran Korean actress, "Mother" is also an awesomely ambitious artistic statement that cuts deeply into the true nature of love and devotion.»