Pieta

MUST SEE: Kim Ki Duk's Pieta (South Korea, 2012) - 2012VENic Golden Lion Winner. Here comes another Kim Ki-duk metaphor, a very Christian one at that, this time about pain - inflicting and bearing it - the corrupting power of money and more than anything the concept of motherhood and misericord in this world. Often weird and freakish, as you would expect a Kim Ki-duk film to be, this gruesome tale about a vile moneylender’s enforcer and a woman who enters his life claiming to be his mother, may well scare off average Western audiences, but festivals and art houses will take it to their heart, just like they did with earlier Kim Ki-duk films in the past. 2012VENic, 2012TOR, 2013OE, 2013PALM. RATING: 8