Montréal AmérAsia Film Festival: star Yun Joeng-hie and director Lee share the spotlight in ‘Poetry’
Poetry
Directed by Lee Chang-dong
Written by Lee Chang-dong
South Korea, 2010
The most recent edition of Montréal’s AmérAsia film festival had as part of its lineup the ‘We Distribute’ section, which highlighted both some of the more recent successful Asian films but also the local film companies who willingly distributed them. Among such movies was Lee Chang-dong latest drama, Poetry (distributed in Canada by Métropole), which earned the admiration of the Cannes festival back in 2010, scoring the Best Screenplay award. Much like another director whose recent work played at the event, Kim Ki-duk, Lee Chang-dong has also taken the film world by storm over the past years with a enviable track record of compelling dramas.
Poetry is a complex tale surrounding a singular character, Mija (Yun Jeong-hie). In her mid sixties, she lives in a Bosan apartment with her stubborn, ungrateful grandson, the latter whom either ignores Mija entirely...
Directed by Lee Chang-dong
Written by Lee Chang-dong
South Korea, 2010
The most recent edition of Montréal’s AmérAsia film festival had as part of its lineup the ‘We Distribute’ section, which highlighted both some of the more recent successful Asian films but also the local film companies who willingly distributed them. Among such movies was Lee Chang-dong latest drama, Poetry (distributed in Canada by Métropole), which earned the admiration of the Cannes festival back in 2010, scoring the Best Screenplay award. Much like another director whose recent work played at the event, Kim Ki-duk, Lee Chang-dong has also taken the film world by storm over the past years with a enviable track record of compelling dramas.
Poetry is a complex tale surrounding a singular character, Mija (Yun Jeong-hie). In her mid sixties, she lives in a Bosan apartment with her stubborn, ungrateful grandson, the latter whom either ignores Mija entirely...
- 3/15/2012
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
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