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Piercing
Reid seems to be going through a terrifying situation with a strange experience of his life. That story begins where Reed goes on a business trip. Before going, Reid tries to kiss his wife and infant son, but instead of a bag full of clothes, he had a toothbrush and several killers. It seems to be something that is carefully planned, where there will be a murder victim. Perhaps Reid is ready to get rid of his malicious motives and continue to be a good husband and father. But things change quite as Reed seems to get more than he bargained with Jackie, a very beautiful girl in his room, getting involved in more problems.
23 November 1993, Sao Paulo, Brazil
18 February 1985, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
29 December 1974, New Jersey, USA
8 December 1963, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
30 August 1979, Camarillo, California, USA
14 October 1989, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
February 18, 2019
Pesce presumably wants to give us an exquisite tease, but I found it a bit of a pain.
January 31, 2019
What a deliciously demented and disturbing drama Nicolas Pesce's "Piercing" is, dripping with gore and laden with forbidden innuendo.
February 15, 2019
The dream-team pairing of Abbott and Wasikowska, two of the most interesting, subtle and risk-loving performers of their generation, is a huge compensation.
February 22, 2019
A darkly comic giallo-esque romance, torturously literalising all the dynamics of S&M, while accommodating the persistence of trauma.
February 01, 2019
Piercing is an unnerving mix of loveliness and lunacy.
February 21, 2019
Darkly funny, but still unapologetically grim, this plays very much like a modern version of Takashi Miike's iconic 1999 film Audition, only with a lot less of a brutal finale.
January 31, 2019
Pesce deploys a potent arsenal of stylistic tools - urban landscape miniatures, plushly disquieting Lynchian interiors, flashbacks, creature effects, and florid gore - to tell the story of Reed.
February 20, 2019
A darkly funny and consistently unsettling two-hander that explores S&M with a beguilingly light touch.
February 01, 2019
Piercing is an unsuccessful provocation, and I didn't get anything out of it beyond a few wispy ideas about how we may never really understand what we want from each other.
February 18, 2019
Mia Wasikowska turns up and it seems the power games have only just begun. Nasty but stylishly executed.
February 26, 2019
Undeniably striking from an aesthetic standpoint, but dragged down by repetitive, ultimately vacuous cat-and-mouse games.
February 04, 2019
For every clever twist, there's a dead giveaway; the movie's high-style décor is more alluring than the drama.
