Pieta (2012)
Country: KOR
Technical: col 104m
Director: Ki-duk Kim
Cast: Min-soo Jo, Jung-Jin Lee, Ki-Hong Woo, Eunjin Kang
Synopsis:
In a low-rise district of half-built tenements and machine toolshops, a loan shark's debt collector plies his trade, visiting, extorting and maiming, to collect on the insurance. Then he is approached by a woman claiming to be the mother who abandoned him as an infant, and he gradually forms an attachment that compromises his livelihood.
Review:
Typically dark and unremitting naturalistic drama from a director famous for his outré flourishes of mutilation and debasement. However, once you get past the Zola-esque grimness of the opening act, the intensity of the acting wins you over: there's no denying the commitment of everyone involved here. And, with its ultimate twist, the film speaks to us of the ineffable need in every mother for a son, and in every son for a mother, however inauspicious the circumstances.
Country: KOR
Technical: col 104m
Director: Ki-duk Kim
Cast: Min-soo Jo, Jung-Jin Lee, Ki-Hong Woo, Eunjin Kang
Synopsis:
In a low-rise district of half-built tenements and machine toolshops, a loan shark's debt collector plies his trade, visiting, extorting and maiming, to collect on the insurance. Then he is approached by a woman claiming to be the mother who abandoned him as an infant, and he gradually forms an attachment that compromises his livelihood.
Review:
Typically dark and unremitting naturalistic drama from a director famous for his outré flourishes of mutilation and debasement. However, once you get past the Zola-esque grimness of the opening act, the intensity of the acting wins you over: there's no denying the commitment of everyone involved here. And, with its ultimate twist, the film speaks to us of the ineffable need in every mother for a son, and in every son for a mother, however inauspicious the circumstances.
Country: KOR
Technical: col 104m
Director: Ki-duk Kim
Cast: Min-soo Jo, Jung-Jin Lee, Ki-Hong Woo, Eunjin Kang
Synopsis:
In a low-rise district of half-built tenements and machine toolshops, a loan shark's debt collector plies his trade, visiting, extorting and maiming, to collect on the insurance. Then he is approached by a woman claiming to be the mother who abandoned him as an infant, and he gradually forms an attachment that compromises his livelihood.
Review:
Typically dark and unremitting naturalistic drama from a director famous for his outré flourishes of mutilation and debasement. However, once you get past the Zola-esque grimness of the opening act, the intensity of the acting wins you over: there's no denying the commitment of everyone involved here. And, with its ultimate twist, the film speaks to us of the ineffable need in every mother for a son, and in every son for a mother, however inauspicious the circumstances.