Piercing
Piercing
Directed by:
Nicolas PesceScreenplay:
Nicolas PesceCinematography:
Zack GallerCast:
Christopher Abbott, Mia Wasikowska, Laia Costa, Maria Dizzia, Marin Ireland, Wendell Pierce, Olivia BondVOD (1)
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Reed (Christopher Abbott) is going on a business trip. He kisses his wife and infant son goodbye, but in lieu of a suitcase filled with clothes, he's packed a toothbrush and a murder kit. Everything is meticulously planned: check into a hotel and kill an unsuspecting victim. Only then will he rid himself of his devious impulses and continue to be a good husband and father. But Reed gets more than he bargained for with Jackie (Mia Wasikowska), an alluring call girl who arrives at his room. First, they relax and get in the mood, but when there’s an unexpected disruption, the balance of control begins to sway back and forth between the two. Is he seeing things? Who's playing whom? Before the night is over, a feverish nightmare will unfold, and Reed and Jackie will seal their bond in blood. (Sundance Film Festival)
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If you’re mentally unstable and you wake up one morning with the urge to kill a random prostitute, you’d better first make sure she’s not even more unstable than you! The theme developed by Rjú Murakami will greatly remind his older piece, Audition, which has a lot in common with this film. Piercing, however, is really slow paced and the only thing that happens is what you suspect from the very beginning, which is that the prostitute murder will end up being trickier than initially planned. The plot has no start or finish, and the promising theme is therefore totally buried in the screenwriter’s inability to breathe life into the story. And when you finally have the impression that the film is taking off, it ends. Too bad the title sequence style is deceiving us with its grindhouse butchery style, which is definitely not what Piercing is. [Sitges 2018]
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A distinctive indoor game of murderer and victim (and vice versa), lined with wonderful retro
stylization (the opening and end credits, Goblin’s music from Dario Argento’s films). Piercing is an
unpredictable, bizarre movie about the meeting of two freaks, which, despite the teasing hints of
S&M, has an interesting development and, provocatively, no definite resolution. [Sitges FF]
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