BBC News - South Korean film Pieta wins at Venice Film Festival

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"(...) Inspired by Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard the film also picked up the Silver Lion prize for best director Directed by Paul Thomas Andersen The Master tells the story of a sect leader who takes a war veteran under his wing Hoffman who also collected Phoenix s award said Joaquin Phoenix is a life force in this film and I kind of rode that life force and that was my performance It was really riding his life force because it was something that was untameable and my job was to try to and it was almost impossible which is kind of the movie He also praised Anderson who was not at the ceremony calling him Friend first collaborator second And he happens to be one of the great film makers Philip Seymour Hoffman Philip Seymour Hoffman collected all the awards on behalf of the film Pieta directed by Kim Ki duk centres on a debt collector who is forced to examine his life when a woman turns up claiming to be his mother On accepting his award Ki duk sang a song to the audience while thanking the jury (...)"