Poetry

Poetry

2010139 min7.5 / 10

A contemplative, melancholic portrait of an aging woman discovering language and meaning while confronting memory loss, family shame, and moral complicity.

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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