In my experience, pitching anything as “coming of age” story is instant death. Somehow, it reeks of overly familiar stuff that everybody is supposed to have moved past long ago. Bildungsroman has a slightly better ring to it, especially if you can hyphenate it somehow, but the idea is the same: teenagers learning about responsibility [...]
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- Review: MotherBong Joon-ho's new film Mother is a hard one to pin down. On the surface, the South Korean filmmaker, who successfully toyed with genre conventions in The Host and Memories of Murder, has created a classic sleuth story. The story of a devoted mother who attempts to prove her son's innocence after he is arrested of murder is also surprisingly funn […]
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