Credits
LEE Chang-Dong - Director
LEE Chang-Dong - Script / Dialogue
Hyunseok KIM - Cinematography
Jeomhui SIHN - Set decorator
Hyun KIM - Film Editor
Seungchul LEE (WAVELAB) - Sound
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POETRY
Directed by : LEE Chang-Dong
Year of production : 2010 Country : SOUTH KOREA Length : 139 minutes
Award for Best Screenplay , 2010
Synopsis
Mija lives with her middle-schooler grandson in a small suburban city located along the Han River. She is a dandy old lady who likes to dress up in flower-decorated hats and fashionable outfits, but she is also an unpredictable character with an inquisitive mind. By chance she takes a "poetry" class at a neighborhood cultural center and is challenged to write a poem for the first time in her life.
Her quest for poetic inspiration begins with observing the everyday life she never intentional took notice of before to find beauty within it. And with this, Mija is delightfully surprised with newfound trepidation as if she were a little girl discovering things for the first time in her life.
But when she is suddendly faced with a reality harsh beyond her imagination, she realizes perhaps li
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Official release
19.05.10 . 00:00 AM
Chang-Dong Lee's Poetry press conference
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