Mother (2009) NYT Critics' Pick

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Kim Hye-Ja in “Mother,” directed by Bong Joon-ho.
Fierce Love: Better Not Make This Mom Angry
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: March 12, 2010

The last monster to run wild through Bong Joon-ho’s imagination was an enormous creature from the watery deep. A different menace storms through “Mother,” the fourth feature from this sensationally talented South Korean filmmaker, though she too seems to spring from unfathomable depths. Unlike the beast in “The Host” — a catastrophic byproduct of the American military — the monster in “Mother” doesn’t come with much of a backstory, which suggests that she is a primal force, in other words, a natural. More