Poetry (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: August 23, 2011
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Kino Lorber
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Lee David | |
Directed by | Lee Chang-dong | |
Screenwriting by | Lee Chang-dong | |
Director of Photography: | Kim Hyun-seok |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
It is a picture of something inexpressibly gentle and sad, something heartbreaking and absolutely normal, but something stirred up by a violent, alien incursion.
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Guardian
Strongly recommended for the patient and contemplative, as is usual with the works of Lee Chang-dong.
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ScreenAnarchy
Lee Chang-dong makes movies that are difficult to reduce to a pithy description; they're dramas that unfold gradually, following their protagonists one step at a time through a series of trials both grand and subtle.
A.V. Club
How many times have we seen the components of this plot? The crimes of the young; the trials of the old; the lone individual fighting for truth and decency. But they were never mixed like this before.
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Financial Times
[T]he quality of the film is such that it simply demands an airing.
Sight and Sound
It's fair to say that the subject-matter... is likely to be a hard sell, but the quality of the film is such that it simply demands an airing.
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Sight and Sound
True to the title, writer-director Lee Chang-dong is principally concerned with rendering emotions that seem inexpressible.
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Chicago Reader
Product Description:
A woman in the autumn of her years is prompted by art and circumstance to reexamine her life in this drama from director Lee Chang-dong. Yang Mija (Yun Jung-hee) is a charming and well-preserved woman in her mid-sixties who stays busy looking after her teenage grandson, Wook (Lee David), and helping keep house for an older gentleman friend. Yang Mija has been having trouble with her memory and has developed a new curiosity about creative self-expression, so she signs up for a class in writing poetry at a neighborhood community center, even though she's never written verse before. Mija's simple, contented existence is thrown into disarray by a pair of events -- she learns from her doctor that her memory troubles are the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, and Wook is believed to be part of a gang of thugs who severely beat and raped a girl who responded by committing suicide. As Mija faces a grim future, she's uncertain about the notion of turning her grandson in to the police or raising money for a settlement that would keep him out of prison, and suddenly the beauty of the world seems a far more elusive concept. SHI (aka POETRY) was an official selection at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
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- UPC: 738329076122
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