Pieta

9/6/2026

# Pietà **Summary: 10/10: a scalding, nearly unwatchable masterpiece that turns Michelangelo's art into an indictment of usury and late-stage capitalism, and proves that the most unbearable violence in cinema is the violence a director refuses to show you.** > "The pine tree that once stood here / Was cut down and disappeared." — *Daldongnae: A Slum Under the Moonlight*, NHK World documentary Kim Ki-duk is Korea's most admired filmmaker and one of my great personal favorites, and the reason is his creativity, which never once in his career depended on a budget. He is the undisputed master of "show, don't tell." Consider *3-Iron*, in which the leading man never speaks a word and it takes you half the film to notice, because Kim has already told you everything through a golf c