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POETRY, NR, 139 min., in Korean with English subtitles

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 ungrateÂful grandson Wook (Lee David) and makes a living by cleaning house for an elÂderly 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, sheâs plagued by the onset of Alzheimerâs 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 Mijaâs unique and touching poetry that allows her to defy the weight of shame and distance herself from a painful
proximity to violence.