Madonna | |
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Directed by | Shin Su-won |
Written by | Shin Su-won |
Produced by | Francis Lim |
Starring | Seo Young-hee Kwon So-hyun |
Cinematography | Yun Ji-woon |
Edited by | Lee Do-hyun |
Music by | Ryu Jae-ah |
Production company | June Film |
Distributed by | Little Big Pictures |
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Running time | 121 minutes |
Country | South Korea |
Language | Korean |
Budget | US$350,000[1] |
Madonna (Korean: 마돈나) is a 2015 South Korean mystery-drama film written and directed by Shin Su-won.[2][3][4][5] It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] Kwon So-hyun won Best New Actress at the 35th Korean Association of Film Critics Awards.[17]
Due to her mounting bills, Moon Hye-rim becomes a nurse's aide and is assigned to the VIP ward to take care of a patient who has been left paralyzed by a stroke, Kim Cheol-oh. Cheol-oh is a billionaire tycoon and the hospital's major investor, and for ten years his unscrupulous son Sang-woo has done everything in his power to extend his father's life through a series of organ transplants because Cheol-oh had instructed in his will that his entire fortune is to be given to charities (thereby putting an end to Sang-woo's affluent lifestyle). One day, a brain-dead, pregnant young woman named Jang Mi-na is brought to the hospital after a mysterious car crash. In exchange for a sum of money, Hye-rim agrees to Sang-woo's instructions that she track down Mi-na's next-of-kin and get them to sign an organ donation consent form for her heart. As Hye-rim delves into Mi-na's past and discovers that Mi-na was bullied since childhood for her hair color, weight and poverty, to her adulthood as a sexually abused factory worker who becomes a prostitute named "Madonna," the more Hye-rim forms a strange bond with her comatose patient and becomes determined to derail the heart transplant.
Year | Award | Category | Recipient | Result |
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2015 | 24th Buil Film Awards | Best New Actress | Kwon So-hyun | Nominated |
35th Korean Association of Film Critics Awards | Won | |||
36th Blue Dragon Film Awards | Nominated | |||
2016 | 52nd Paeksang Arts Awards | Nominated | ||
3rd Wildflower Film Awards | Best Director (Narrative Films) | Shin Su-won | Won | |
Best New Actor/Actress | Kwon So-hyun | Won |