UPDATE- LEE CHANG-DONG'S POETRY WINS THE CANNES AWARD FOR BEST SCREENPLAY!
Here is a clip from Maggie Lee's review of the film in the Hollywood Reporter,
"Bottom Line: A disturbingly ambivalent view on art's relation to life and death.
CANNES -- Rhyming couplets, rather than religion, is the opium of an old lady beset by Alzheimer's and a family crisis in Lee Chan-dong's companion piece to "Secret Sunshine." While both films feature maternal figures whose lives are derailed by tragedies they cannot help, "Poetry's" tone and emotions are so painfully muted, its style so elliptical and Lee's exploration of the function of art in a morally vacuous society so ambivalent that it makes for extremely difficult and challenging viewing."
read the full review here http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film-reviews/poetry-film-review-1004092975.story
Poetry is now being touted as a possible winner of the Golden Palm award!
Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune calls the film one of his favorites and says, "The South Korean writer-director's protagonist is exceptionally rich: a 60ish grandmother coping with financial difficulties and the early stages of Alzheimer's."
More reviews on the film: Financial Times
Chicago Tribune
Huffington Poet
ABC News
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