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The Mother and the Bear

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doesn't bring a lot of new material to the familiar narrative of parents becoming enlightened towards their child's sexuality. Even the story engine about the discovery of online dating and the chain of cutesy indiscretions that follows doesn't feel particularly novel. After all, Canada has already
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we've chuckled alongside that CBC sitcom, or absorbed the pathos of intergenerational Asian journeys (towards the old country) in films like
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some years earlier, is injured in a fall that has left her comatose, only to discover how much she didn't know about her daughter's life.
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graded the film a B, writing that "Any weaknesses lie more in the slightly tired general themes Ma explores.
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The cast also includes Lee Won-jae, Jonathan Kim, Amara Pedroso, Samantha Kendrick and Susan Hanson.
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given global audiences a series worth of laughs at the expense of ajummas, in
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who flies to Canada after her daughter Sumi (Leere Park), who emigrated to
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At Cinéfest, the film won the award for Outstanding Canadian Feature.
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This article related to a Canadian film of the 2020s is a
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The film premiered in the Centrepiece program at the
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Index

Johnny Ma
Niv Fichman
Kim Ho-jung
Inti Briones
Marie-HĂ©lĂšne L. Delorme
Rhombus Media
Elevation Pictures
TIFF
comedy-drama
Johnny Ma
Kim Ho-jung
South Korea
Winnipeg
2024 Toronto International Film Festival
2024 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival
IndieWire
Kim's Convenience
Return to Seoul
The Farewell


"Forget hockey rivalry: Sudbury’s CinĂ©fest 2024 showing love for North Bay"
Sudbury.com
"Five Canadian features among TIFF Centrepiece programme"
Playback
"Dystopian themes, real-world issues spotlighted in Canadian films at TIFF"
CityNews
"‘The Mother and the Bear’ Review: A Mother Catfishes Her Comatose Daughter in an Endearing Dramedy About Immigrant Loneliness"
IndieWire
"‘The Count of Monte-Cristo’ big winner at CinĂ©fest Sudbury"

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