Mother (2009)

Recommended

South Korea

Feature Film

Original Title: 마더

Director: Bong Joon-ho

Writers: Bong Joon-ho, Park Eun-kyo

Cinematographer: Hong Kyeong-pyo

Composer: Lee Byung-woo

Cast: Kim Hye-ja, Won Bin, Jin Goo, Yoon Je-moon, Jun Mi-sun, Lee Young-Suck, Song Sae-Beauk, Na Mun-hee, Chun Woo-hee, Kim Byoung-Soon

When her dopey/disturbed/developmentally challenged (delete as applicable) son is charged with the murder of a teenaged prostitute, a doting mother, convinced of his innocence, sets out to prove it, going to extreme measures to do so, in Bong’s stylish, thoroughly unpredictable, and hugely entertaining murder mystery. Iain.Stott