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Pieta
Directed by
Kim Ki-duk
Not Rated
2012
1h 44m
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7.1
73%
72%
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A loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.
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Cast of Pieta
Cho Min-soo
Mi-sun
Lee Jung-jin
Gang-do
Woo Ki-hong
Hun-cheol
Kang Eun-jin
Myeong-ja
Heo Joon-seok
Suicidal Man (uncredited)
Kwon Yul
Man with Guitar (uncredited)
Jin Yong-uk
Shop Owner in Wheelchair (uncredited)
Yoo Ha-bok
Container Man (uncredited)
Kim Jae-rok
Monk (uncredited)
Kim Ki-duk
Director / Writer
Kim Soon-mo
Producer
Pieta Ratings & Reviews
Film Comment Magazine
Max Kyburz
Succeeds in repulsing and enlightening viewers simultaneously, even if its views on self-sacrifice and redemption are cynical.
HitFix
Guy Lodge
Nasty is as nasty does, and this lurid if aspirational potboiler does its thing, but the camera could have been let in on the joke.
Times-Picayune
Mike Scott
It's compelling stuff, a film that starts out as one thing but subtly shifts to become something else entirely.
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
There is a touch too much of the handheld camera, but in general one senses that the very quality of the way this film was made is one of its justifications for being and for its raw moments.
Seattle Times
Jeff Shannon
After being subjected to disturbing scenes of abject cruelty, rape and torture, my reactions shifted from squeamish revulsion to a reluctant yet growing appreciation for Kim's thematic ambition.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Cary Darling
The film's big reveal may not come as that much of a surprise; you may figure out where it's going well before the end. But it's the getting there that is, if not exactly fun, then certainly hypnotic.
Film.com
William Goss
May not rank with the operatic madness of Park Chan-wook, or the visceral overkill of Kim Jee-woon, but if you're still not sick of feeling sick, then Pieta might be the movie for you.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
The performances of these two leads are compelling and the Cheonggyecheon area can almost be seen as another character in Kim's morality tale.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
Expectedly gruesome in some of its details. But it's the explicitness about capitalism's emotional wreckage that gives this micro-budgeted drama a gut-punch heft.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
The newest masterpiece of sex and brutality by South Korean wild man Kim Ki-duk.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Filled with feisty women and cowering men, "Pieta" twists human emotions into pretzels of perversion.
NPR
Keith Phipps
Kim offers no easy answers, and never backs away from the toughness of the questions, in a film that's ugly in both its material and its presentation.
Chicago Sun-Times
Bill Stamets
Thou shalt not borrow, nor maim those who owe interest, preaches this obsessive auteur, offering one more near-mute seeker of justice. The tragic perversity is gripping.
Arizona Republic
Barbara VanDenburgh
For all its cringe-inducing horror, "Pieta" is visually restrained, striking visceral blows with psychological precision while making little use of gore.
Chicago Reader
Drew Hunt
This is brilliant in some stretches and deplorable in others, with the director's usual extreme violence and depraved sexuality.
AV Club
A.A. Dowd
It's like a dour, less stylized version of one of the violent revenge fantasies from Kim's fellow countryman, Park Chan-wook.
Variety
Leslie Felperin
This tidy, ultimately moving thriller about a loan shark who meets a woman claiming to be his mother offers up the director's vintage blend of cruelty, wit and moral complexity.
HollywoodChicago.com
Brian Tallerico
There is no denying Kim's ability to drag the viewer into those dark places of humanity that we don't want to go. It's not an easy film but it's a worthwhile one.
Village Voice
Nick Schager
An intriguing tale of redemption and rebirth ... that eventually segues into a more conventional revenge drama.
Slant Magazine
John Semley
Kim Ki-duk's film makes an exaggerated, undeserved show of its cruelty, indignity, and aspirations of importance.
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