Pieta (2012)

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	Year of first release: 2012
	Director: Kim Ki-duk
	Actors: Jo Min-soo
	Country: ROK
	Genre: Melodrama
	Conditions of visioning: 22.10.2012
Synopsis: A loan shark, who uses row violence, is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.
Review: The movie uses symbols at the second degree. Pieta is the classical figure of Maria protecting her dead son. The connotation misleads the spectator, but not in an intersting way. The meaning of the brutal acts is very melodramatic, like in a Lars von Trier movie, but with minimum dialogues. A couple of scene are very well filmed, but I never wondered the question "What is going to happen?", not because it was foreseeable, but because I did not see any sense in this movie. It has been applauded a lot for the whole career of Kim Ki-duk, but I cannot believe that this movie was the reason. When Asian movies are so rare, I would have prefer a good one. This is a good motivation to visit the FEFF in Udine next year.
Rating: 3 /10