Pietà (film)
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Theatrical release poster
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| Hangul | |
| Revised Romanization | Pieta |
| McCune–Reischauer | P‘iet‘a |
| Directed by | Kim Ki-duk |
| Produced by | Kim Soon-mo Kim Ki-duk |
| Written by | Kim Ki-duk |
| Starring |
Lee Jung-jin Jo Min-su |
| Music by | Park In-young |
| Cinematography | Cho Young-jik |
| Edited by | Kim Ki-duk |
| Distributed by |
NEW (South Korea) Drafthouse Films (United States) |
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Running time
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104 minutes |
| Country | United States South Korea |
| Language | Korean English |
| Box office | US$3,601,250 |
Pietà (Hangul: 피에타) is a 2012 South Korean film. The 18th feature 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.
It made its world premiere in the competition line-up of the 69th Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion. It is the first Korean film to win the top prize at one of the three major international film festivals — Venice, Cannes and Berlin.
The title refers to the Italian Pietà (piety/pity), signifying depictions of the Virgin Mary cradling the corpse of Jesus.
Kang-do is a heartless man who has no living family members and whose job is to threaten debtors to repay his clients, the loan sharks who demand a 10x return on a one-month loan. To recover the interest, the debtors would sign an insurance for handicap, and Kang-do would injure the debtors brutally to file the claim. One day he receives a visit from a strange, middle-aged woman claiming she is his long-lost mother. Over the following weeks, the woman stubbornly follows him and he continues to do his job. But he is slowly moved and changed by the motherly love expressed from this woman.
Pietà premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival on September 4, 2012. It received theatrical release in South Korea on September 6, 2012.
The film has been sold to 20 countries for international distribution, including Italy, Germany, Russia, Norway, Turkey, Hong Kong, and Greece. Independent distributor, Drafthouse Films is doing a theatrical release in North America.
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