When a rather simple-minded young man in a provincial town is accused of murdering a schoolgirl on the basis of circumstantial evidence, his overprotective mother does everything she can to single-handedly prove his innocence. In the process, things come to light that would have been better left in the dark. A fascinating, gripping thriller somewhere between Hitchcock and Almodovar, in which the director of THE HOST and PARASITE once again proves his mastery. “MOTHER is a psycho-study as well as a horror film, a tender work about motherly love and a harrowing drama about the power of emotions. (...) The film is characterized by the viewer's uncertainty and a fundamental, observant distance. This basic attitude is paired with a great sense of the visual, which has an enormous impact: Hong Kyung-pyo's superb camera manages to give psychological depth to even fleeting impressions. Added to this is the narrative elegance of the director, who builds up an atmosphere of horror, threat and foreboding early on, in which anything seems possible. Imagine someone transposing the curiosity and technical precision of Henri-Georges Clouzot, the elegance of Alain Corneau and the abysmal imagination, suspense tricks and mockery of Alfred Hitchcock to contemporary Korea - then you get an idea of this film.” (Rüdiger Suchsland, on: artechock.de)