Director | LEE Chang-dong |
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Year | 2010 |
Status | Completed |
Genre | drama |
Starring | YUN Junghee, LEE David, KIM Hira |
Running Time | 139 min. |
Country of Production | Korea |
Festival & Awards | 2010 Cannes Film Festival - Best Screenplay Award 2010 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - Open Eyes 2010 Toronto International Film Festival - Masters 2010 San Sebastian International Film Festival - Zabaltegi-Pearls 2010 Mar del Plata International Film Festival - Panorama 2011 International Film Festival Rotterdam - Spectrum |
Synopsis | Mija lives with her middle-schooler grandson in a small suburban city located along the Han River. She is a dandy old lady who likes to dress up in flower-decorated hats and fashionable outfits, but she is also an unpredictable character with an inquisitive mind. By chance she takes a ‘poetry’ class at a neighborhood cultural center and is challenged to write a poem for the first time in her life. Her quest for poetic inspiration begins with observing the everyday life she never intentionally took notice of before to find beauty within it. And with this, Mija is delightfully surprised with newfound trepidation as if she were a little girl discovering things for the first time in her life. But when she is suddenly faced with a reality harsh beyond her imagination, she realizes perhaps life is not as beautiful as she had thought it is… |
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