Pietà (film)
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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.[3][4][5][6][7]
Pietà | |
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Korean name | |
Hangul | |
Revised Romanization | Pieta |
McCune–Reischauer | P‘iet‘a |
Directed by | Kim Ki-duk |
Written by | Kim Ki-duk |
Produced by | Kim Soon-mo Kim Ki-duk |
Starring | Lee Jung-jin Jo Min-su |
Cinematography | Cho Young-jik |
Edited by | Kim Ki-duk |
Music by | Park In-young |
Distributed by | NEW (South Korea) Drafthouse Films (United States) |
Release dates |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
Country | South Korea[1] |
Languages | Korean English |
Box office | US$3,601,250[2] |
It made its world premiere in the competition line-up of the 69th Venice International Film Festival,[8][9] where it won the Golden Lion.[10][11] It is the first Korean film to win the top prize at one of the three major international film festivals—Venice, Cannes and Berlin.[12][13][14][15][16][17]
The title refers to the Italian Pietà (piety/pity), signifying depictions of the Virgin Mary cradling the corpse of Jesus.