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Total Vote User Pieta : Visitor | |
User Percentage For Pieta : 73 % | |
User Ranting Pieta : 3.7 | |
User Count Like for Pieta : 1,493 | |
All Critics Count For Pieta : 25 | |
All Critics Percentage For Pieta : 80 % | |
All Critics Ranting For Pieta : 7 | |
Actors For Pieta | |
Jo Min-soo,Lee Jungjin,Eunjin Kang,Jae-rok Kim,Jin Yong-Ok,Min Soo Jo,Cho Min-soo,Jeong-jin Lee,Jo Jae-ryong,Lee Myeong-ja,Woo Gi-hong | |
Pieta Movie Review: | |
Like many South Korean films, revenge is a major theme here, although the way Kim handles it is particularly subtle and surprising: It sneaks up on you. Rene Rodriguez-Miami Herald 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. William Goss-Film.com More philosophy than film at times, it asks questions without expecting easy answers. What is money? What is love? And what would you do for either? Stephen Whitty-Newark Star-Ledger 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. Robert Abele-Los Angeles Times The newest masterpiece of sex and brutality by South Korean wild man Kim Ki-duk. V.A. Musetto-New York Post Filled with feisty women and cowering men, "Pieta" twists human emotions into pretzels of perversion. Jeannette Catsoulis-New York Times Wrenching Oedipal tragedy not for the casual viewer Marty Mapes-Movie Habit No comfort in this Pieta Robert Denerstein-Movie Habit The film contains some memorable moments, and a pair of fine performances, but it's hard not to feel that it would have proved more successful if it had stayed on the path it was heading down for the first forty minutes or so. Oliver Lyttelton-The Playlist The performances of these two leads are compelling and the Cheonggyecheon area can almost be seen as another character in Kim's morality tale. Marjorie Baumgarten-Austin Chronicle Kim has a very specific wringer he intends to usher his pawns through and a particular course he's plotted to it. Consequently, a complex, troubling character study slowly becomes a borderline conventional narrative. Curtis Woloschuk-Paste Magazine It's a nasty, compelling thriller if you have the stomach, perhaps not as profound as it wants us to think it is, but sharply realized nonetheless. Joe Gross-Austin American-Statesman With its dazzlingly cynical story and intensely squalid setting, it's a trip to the dark side - indeed, the darkest side. Marshall Fine-Hollywood & Fine It's like a dour, less stylized version of one of the violent revenge fantasies from Kim's fellow countryman, Park Chan-wook. A.A. Dowd-AV Club | |
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