Kim Ki-Duk’s “Pieta” wins top prize at Venice Film Fest

Kim Ki-Duk’s “Pieta” wins top prize at Venice Film Fest
September 10, 2012 - 14:58 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - South Korean director Kim Ki-Duk has been awarded the Golden Lion for best film at the Venice Film Festival for Pieta, about a loan shark whose life is changed by a woman who claims to be his mother, Sky News reported.

The Silver Lion for best director went to Paul Thomas Anderson for The Master, inspired by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.

The film's stars, Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman, shared the prize for best actor during the ceremony on Saturday.

The best actress award went to Israeli actress Hadas Yaron, for her role in Fill the Void.

Pieta follows a young loan shark as he goes about his business maiming debtors to collect insurance money.

His ruthless course is interrupted by a stranger who claims to be his mother - and his acceptance of her opens in him a sense of pity for his former victims.

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