Yes, that’s right, Kim Ki-duk’s latest film, Pieta, is thus named for the famed sculpture of the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus, most famously depicted by Michelangelo in a statue displayed in St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. It’s a term that is basically intended to be a plea for mercy. Winner of the Golden Lion at 2012’s Venice Film Festival, Kim Ki-duk’s latest is a glorious return to form for the South Korean auteur after the painful pretentiousness of 2011’s overblown video diary, Arirang, and certainly delivers the hysterical excess heralded by its melodramatic title. As the economic crisis still seeps steadfastly in the veins of American cinema, Ki-duk takes us into the nether regions of capitalistic conundrums to give us a psychological study harpooned on the root of all evil.
A sadistic loan shark, Gang-do (Lee Jung-jin) violently and methodically...
A sadistic loan shark, Gang-do (Lee Jung-jin) violently and methodically...
- 7/23/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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