Poetry

Poetry

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Release Date

5/13/2010

Runtime

139 mins

Genres

Overview

A sexagenarian South Korean woman enrolls in a poetry class as she grapples with her faltering memory and her grandson's appalling wrongdoing.

Status

Released

Original Language

Korean

Budget

-

Revenue

$349,899

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A quietly devastating portrait of an elderly woman discovering beauty and language as her mind deteriorates and her family crumbles around her. The film moves with meditative slowness through moments of grace, leaving viewers suspended between hope and sorrow.

Mood

MelancholicContemplativeBittersweetWistful

Themes

GriefFamilyMemoryComing apartRedemption

Tone

Tender

Pacing

Meditative

Look

NaturalisticDocumentary-like

Structure

Linear

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Sexual violenceChild endangerment

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