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Several films have portrayed the relationship between mothers and sons at this year’s Festival, but in the Zabaltegi Pearls section yesterday we could see a rather unusual, spine-chilling and crude vision of this. Mother is logically a film about a maternal figure but features one with a obsessive idea of what her role as a mother is.
Bong Joon-ho, the Korean director of the film, who is also a member of the Official Jury, attended the screening at the Kursaal and was pleased with the reaction of the audience. “I think that they enjoyed it and they laughed quite a lot and that meant that I was able to enjoy myself too”, he said. The disturbing portrayal of a mother capable of doing anything for her son is made even tenser by the way that the director makes use of the camera and of colours, which creates an atmosphere that has been described as Hitchcockian by the critics.
The director emphasised that the main character in his film was not a normal mother but one who is facing an extreme situation. What he wanted to do was to show how far a mother was prepared to go to protect her son and how this relationship is not just a matter of good and evil and morality, but is driven by animal-like instincts.
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