Something went wrong
Try again later.
Piercing
It is a very exciting story where that story tells of a man named Reid, a man who works as usual. Instead of Reid attending a bag full of clothes, he had a toothbrush and several killers before he got to work. Perhaps there will be a powerful and terrifying plan where everything is carefully planned: check into a hotel and kill an unrepentant victim. In the end, Reed wants to rid himself of his malicious motives and continues to be a good husband and father. But Reid gets more when he negotiates with Jackie, a seductive invitation girl up to his room where they seem to have a relationship.
29 December 1974, New Jersey, USA
18 February 1985, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
14 October 1989, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
8 December 1963, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
23 November 1993, Sao Paulo, Brazil
30 August 1979, Camarillo, California, USA
February 26, 2019
Undeniably striking from an aesthetic standpoint, but dragged down by repetitive, ultimately vacuous cat-and-mouse games.
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.
February 01, 2019
Piercing is an unnerving mix of loveliness and lunacy.
February 18, 2019
Mia Wasikowska turns up and it seems the power games have only just begun. Nasty but stylishly executed.
January 31, 2019
What a deliciously demented and disturbing drama Nicolas Pesce's "Piercing" is, dripping with gore and laden with forbidden innuendo.
February 04, 2019
For every clever twist, there's a dead giveaway; the movie's high-style décor is more alluring than the drama.
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 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 22, 2019
A darkly comic giallo-esque romance, torturously literalising all the dynamics of S&M, while accommodating the persistence of trauma.
February 18, 2019
Pesce presumably wants to give us an exquisite tease, but I found it a bit of a pain.
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 20, 2019
A darkly funny and consistently unsettling two-hander that explores S&M with a beguilingly light touch.
