Poetry (2010)

Mija (veteran actress Yun Jung-hee) is a beautiful woman in her sixties who moves gracefully through life, contemplating a trivial daily routine that is ill-suited to her refined persona. With elegance and a dash of eccentricity, Mija takes care of her ungrateful grandson Wook (Lee David) and makes a living by cleaning house for an elderly man who, though paralyzed by a stroke, still responds to her charm with bouts of drug-induced arousal. On a whim, Mija enrolls in a poetry class at the local cultural centre and begins a personal quest to find the perfect words to describe her feelings. However, she’s plagued by the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, and struggles with new vocabulary and the challenges of the creative process. When her world is turned upside down by the discovery of a monstrous crime, it is Mija’s unique and touching poetry that allows her to defy the weight of shame and distance herself from a painful proximity to violence.

Mija, una donna di 66 anni che vive con suo nipote, un ragazzo che frequenta il liceo in una piccola città di provincia attraversata dal fiume Han, nella Corea del Sud.
Mija è eccentrica e piena di curiosità. Il caso la porta a frequentare un corso di scrittura poetica e, per la prima volta nella sua vita

A sixty-something woman, faced with the discovery of a heinous family crime and in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, finds strength and purpose when she enrolls in a poetry class.

Dans une petite ville de la province du Gyeonggi traversée par le fleuve Han, Mija vit avec son petit-fils, qui est collégien. C’est une femme excentrique, pleine de curiosité, qui aime soigner son apparence, arborant des chapeaux à motifs floraux et des tenues aux couleurs vives. Le hasard l’amène à suivre des cours de poésie à la maison de la culture de son quartier et, pour la première fois dans sa vie, à écrire un poème…