Kim Hye-ja Articles

Justin Timberlake, Jesse Eisenberg in David Fincher’s The Social Network The Los Angeles Film Critics Association is probably one of the two most influential — Oscarwise — film critics’ groups in the United States. The other being, of course, the New York Film Critics Circle. (The National Society of Film Critics would come in third, chiefly because its choices tend to be less Oscar friendly.) [...]

Kim Hye-ja in Mother Bong Joon-ho’s unusual drama-thriller Mother received top honors at the 2010 Asian Film Awards. Hosted by model and veejay Lisa S., the event took place at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center on Monday evening. Mother, the tale of a devoted mother who’ll stop at nothing to prove her mentally handicapped son is innocent of a heinous crime, was chosen [...]

KIM Hye-ja in Mother Bong Joon-ho’s Mother, a Spirit Award nominee and the winner of Korea’s Blue Dragon Award for Best Picture, has received widespread critical praise. At Salon.com, the headline for Andrew O’Hehir review calls the film "a brilliant Hitchcock mystery, made in Korea," while in his Village Voice review J. Hoberman says "Mother is deftly plotted, applying Hitchcockian suspense with a Hitchcockian sense [...]

Directed by Joon-ho Bong, Mother, South Korea’s submission for the 2010 best foreign language film Academy Awards, won the top prize at the Blue Dragon Awards ceremony held tonight in Seoul. Despite its important victory, Mother, the tale of a middle-aged mother (Kim Hye-ja) fighting to clear the name of her son (Won Bin), who has been accused of a vicious crime, failed to win [...]