Film in Pictures: Lee Chang-dong’s Poetry

Here are the images (and Korean poster one-sheet) for Lee Chang-dong’s Poetry. His 6th film will be in Cannes’ Main Competition and will be known as the project that brought Jeong-hie Yun out of retirement. The popular Korean actress retired in 1974 and moved to Paris. Don’t be surprised if there is some pre-hype for her to follow in Jeon Do-yeon’s footsteps who won the Best Actress award at the festival in Secret Sunshine, Chang-dong’s previous film?

This tells the story of an elderly woman in search of the fundamental poetry from her life. Aside from being sentenced with an Alzheimer’s disease, she faces another dilemma when her teen-aged grandson who is under her care is found to be one of the assaulters of a girl from his junior-high school who had committed suicide.