SHI
South Korea 2010
DIR Lee Chang-dong
SCR Lee Chang-dong
CAST Yoon Jeong-hee, Lee Da-wit
From the notes: Chang-dong, director of the brilliant Secret Sunshine, continues his exploration of Korea's socio-political fault-lines in this award winning film (Best Screenplay, Cannes). Bringing the amazing Junghee out of retirement, Poetry is the story of the elderly Yang Miha who lives in a dormitory town outside of Seoul. Looking after her troubled teen grandson Wook and working part-time as a care-giver for a disabled man. Miha discovers poetry and a new way of seeing in a poetry writing class. A visually stunning film, Poetry explores the surprising growth in Miha's identity as she must find a way to negotiate balancing her new-found art with her grandson's implication in a classmate's suicide.
Liam Lacy in the Globe Fri Sept 30, 2011
Actually, film-not-seen. Instead.... Wally and the Slugs and some guy who's name I think is Ted at the Port Theatre...
http://www.dougandtheslugs.ca/
http://www.dougandtheslugs.ca/
