Mija lives in a small city by the Han River with her teenage grandson. When she discovers her grandson's part in the gang-rape the suicide of a Catholic school girl, Mija takes up poetry classes to explore her inner world while her outer world is collapsing on her. A Cannes Film Festival winner and favourite, Lee Chang-dong's Poetry is raw and unsentimental and features a masterclass performance by Jeong-Hie Yun as Mija at its centre.
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Chang-dong Lee directs this Korean drama about a grandmother desperately trying to hold onto beauty and meaning in the face of deteriorating health and family problems. Jeong-hie Yun stars as Mija, a grandmother in her late 60s who is struggling to bring up her teenage grandson Wook (Da-wit Lee) on her own while also entering the early stages of Alzheimer's. When she discovers that her grandson is one of the perpetrators of a serious crime, Mija is at a loss how to react, and ends up enrolling in a poetry class in an attempt to find some strength, purpose and meaning in her life.
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