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Poetry
Directed by
Lee Chang-dong
Not Rated
2011
2h 19m
Drama
7.8
100%
86%
7.6
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A sixty-something woman, faced with the discovery of a heinous family crime and in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, finds strength and purpose when she enrolls in a poetry class.
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Cast of Poetry
Yoon Jeong-hee
Yang Mi-ja
David Lee
Jong-wook
Kim Hee-ra
Elder Kang
Ahn Nae-sang
Ki-beom's Father
Kim Yong-taek
Poet
Park Myung-shin
Hee-jin's Mother
Jang Hye-jin
Mr. Kang's Second Daughter-in-Law
Kim Nam-jin
Soo-ok
Kim Jong-goo
Park Sang-tae
Kim Hye-jung
Jo Mi-hye
Min Bok-gi
Soon-jeong's Father
Kim Ja-young
Bus Woman
Kim Gye-sun
Supermarket Woman
Kim Eun-yeong
Bus Woman
Choi Moon-soon
Head Teacher
Park Hyun-woo
Wook's Friend
Nam Joong-gyu
Wook's Friend
Yoo Chang-sook
VIllage Grandma
Lee Jong-yeol
Jong-cheols Father
Park Woo-yeol
Tae-yeols Father
Poetry Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
True to the title, writer-director Lee Chang-dong is principally concerned with rendering emotions that seem inexpressible.
The Hollywood Reporter
Maggie Lee
Those with an eye for reading between the lines can find layers of meaning.
Variety
Justin Chang
A deceptively gentle tale with a tender ache at its center, as well as a performance from Yun Jung-hee that lingers long in the memory.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
Writer and director Chang-dong Lee's film is moving without ever stooping to melodrama; Yun is the main reason why.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
"Poetry" is daring in the ways only quiet, unhurried but finally haunting films have the courage to be.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
A Korean movie about an aging housemaid that turns out to be one of the best films of the year.
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
Lee is a gifted, thoughtful filmmaker, unafraid to tackle difficult subjects.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
Now is the time to bestow on yourself the gift of one of the most, well, poetic films of 2010. And by "poetic," we mean rich with soulful pauses that are at once visual and aural and deeply observant of the dance of routine and quiet surprise.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
About guilt and responsibility, about loss, about the terrible things human beings do, and the moments of serenity and spiritual succor to be gleaned from the natural world.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Sometimes you don't fully appreciate what a movie's doing to your heart until it's been shattered.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Mija, at the center, is perhaps determined to not fill her remaining memories with despair, and to avoid adding to the sum of the world's misery. Maybe it's as simple as that.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
This is a small film. It is also a great one. "Great" is a word I don't use often.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
[An] exquisite Korean drama by Secret Sunshine's Lee Chang-dong.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
"Poetry," which rightfully won the best-screenplay prize at Cannes, never resorts to exploitation. Under Lee's guidence, it is a mature film for mature audiences.
IFC.com
Matt Singer
Lee's film lives up to its title.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Ms. Yun's performance [is] a tour de force of emotional complexity that builds through restraint and, like Mr. Lee's unadorned visual style, earns rather than demands your attention.
AV Club
Noel Murray
This is a movie about how in the throes of inspiration, phrases follow each other organically, leading the poet to places she didn't know she was headed when she began. But for Yun, that journey is terrifying, with only blackness ahead.
Village Voice
Melissa Anderson
Poetry is a perfectly paced and performed character study of a woman raising a child on her own who must contend with a heinous act of violence.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
It comes together neatly, perhaps too neatly to be ... poetry. But it's not prosaic, either. It has a lucid grace.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Poetry is another sobering philosophical work by Lee Chang-dong.
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