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Poster for Poetry

Poetry

2010 · 139 min

A quiet, haunting immersion into a woman's fractured consciousness, balancing beauty and horror with unflinching tenderness.

Overview
A South Korean woman in her sixties enrolls in a poetry class as she grapples with her faltering memory and her grandson's appalling wrongdoing.
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • guilt
  • memory
  • morality
  • family
Places
  • suburbs
  • small town
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour2
Realism9
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity8
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
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Written by
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Starring
Yoon Jeong-hee, David Lee, Kim Hee-ra, Ahn Nae-sang, Kim Yong-taek, Park Myung-shin, Jang Hye-jin, Kim Nam-jin
Cinematography
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Runtime
139 min
Country
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Languages
Korean

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