Feb

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Nicolas Pesce on His High-Fashion Horror Romance ‘Piercing’ & Why He Loves the Ambiguous Ending

One of my favorite movies I caught on the festival rounds last year was Piercing, the stylish and surreal horror/thriller/romance from Eyes of My Mother director Nicolas Pesce. Inspired by the novel by Ryū Murakami (who also wrote the novel Takashi Miike's Audition was based on,) Piercing stars Christopher Abbott as Reed, an every man husband and father trying to quell his dark desires after the birth of his daughter. Under the guise of a business trip, Reed heads to a hotel and calls an escort with murder on the mind, but when the mysterious young woman (…