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Kim Ki-Duk

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South Korean film director (1960–2020) known for sparse dialogue, striking visual composition, and provocative themes that blend spiritual imagery with violence and human disillusion.

Won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2012 for Pietà. Frequently noted for minimal dialogue, painterly compositions, and recurring themes of love, pain and redemption.

DeBaser reviews portray Kim Ki-duk as a visually poetic, often silent auteur who mixes spiritual themes with brutal or provocative imagery. Early works like 3-Iron and Spring... are widely praised for lyricism and formal balance. Later films such as Moebius divide critics for excess and provocation. Pietà and Time received strong attention and awards.

For:Fans of arthouse and Asian cinema, film students, viewers interested in poetic, provocative and spiritual films.

 Kim Ki Duk tells stories, exquisite experiments that continue to crawl under the skin many moons after viewing.

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 A mess that I would deem completely unwatchable if it had not managed to genuinely make me laugh more than once.

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 Golden Lion at Venice in 2012.

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