2010 · drama
Poetry (2010)
Directed by Lee Chang-dong2h 19m2010
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.
Our read: Poetry (2010) (2010) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, grounded drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, slow-burn, measured drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- slow-burn
- signature
Watching Poetry tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
Your lens for tonight
?
Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
More info & search links
How Poetry feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a quiet, profound Korean drama about poetry, memory, and confronting terrible truths.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if themes of sexual violence against a teen or suicide will haunt you tonight.
Eight films that feel like this one.
Closest in the twelve-axis space, not “people also liked”. All films like Poetry, with why →
Discussion
Make it a movie night.
Pick a mood, get a film the whole couch will enjoy, and give everyone something to watch for.
Pick tonight's film →