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Poetry

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Directed by Lee Chang-dong
South Korea, 2010
Drama

Synopsis

Suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, a gentle elderly woman faces a dilemma when her teen-aged grandson is discovered to be one of the assailants of a young girl who killed herself.

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Awards & Festivals

Cannes Film Festival

2010 | Winner: Best Screenplay

2010 | Special Mention: Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Toronto International Film Festival

2010

International Film Festival Rotterdam

2011

San Sebastián International Film Festival

2010

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Cast & Crew

Articles from the Notebook

Cannes 2010. Awards

Fantastic. "Surreal," says Apichatpong Weerasethakul. He's just won the Palme d'Or for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past...
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Cannes 2010. Favorite Moments: Day 8

  Poetry (Lee Chang-dong, South Korea) Films about artists or someone creating art are incredibly difficult to pull off.  It has...
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Cannes 2010. Lee Chang-dong's "Poetry"

"Korean auteur Lee Chang-dong's quietest and most thematically complete film to date, Poetry charts a grandmother's attempt to write a...
David Hudson
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Cannes 2010. Lineup

The lineup for the 63rd Cannes Film Festival is evidently still a work-in-progress, with an additional three or four titles to be added...
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