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Verified TMDB Critic
2026-09-06
# 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 undi...