Pietà (2012)

Original title

피에타

Directed by

Kim Ki-duk

Genre

drama film, crime thriller film, thriller film

Country

South Korea

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 421 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A brutal loan shark enforcer lives a cold lonely life. His world is shaken when a woman appears and claims to be his mother. She will not let him go no matter how cruelly he treats her.

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What happens

Pietà (Korean: 피에타) is a 2012 South Korean crime thriller film written and directed by Kim Ki-duk. It depicts the mysterious relationship between a brutal man who works for loan sharks and a middle-aged woman who claims that she is his mother, mixing Christian symbolism and highly sexual content. It made its world premiere in the competition line-up of the 69th Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion. It is the first Korean film to win the top prize at one of the three major international film festivals—Venice, Cannes and Berlin. The title refers to the Italian Pietà (piety/pity), signifying depictions of the Virgin Mary cradling the corpse of Jesus. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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