• n  a representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the dead body of Jesus

News & Articles

• ‘Pieta’: a bone-breaking, gut-wrenching Korean drama
  A movie review of “Pieta,” Kim Ki-duk’s occasionally stomach-churning tale of a loan shark’s brutal enforcer who encounters a woman claiming to be the long-lost mother who’d abandoned him as an infant.
  June 13, 2013 - Seattle Times

Quotes

• Jann Wenner in The Age
  Shooting the seminal photograph of John Lennon naked, curled foetus-like around a clothed Yoko Ono ("The Pieta of our times," says Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner) just hours before his murder in 1980.