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A Cannes Film Festival winner and favourite, Lee Chang-dong's Poetry, released on DVD and Blu-Ray from Entertainment One on 28th November 2011, is raw and unsentimental and features a masterclass performance by Jeong-Hie Yun as Mija at its centre.

An elderly lady in her 60's Yang Mija (played by Yun Jeong-Hee) works as a carer for a disabled man and she also raises her grandson alone. She has to endure the onset of Alzheimer's disease and also learns that her grandson was one of the attackers of a junior high school girl that committed suicide.

Through all of this and to fulfil her lifelong dream of becoming a poet the elderly woman starts to take a poetry class and starts writing...

Winner of the Best Screenplay Award at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, Lee Chang-dong's follow-up to his acclaimed Secret Sunshine is a masterful study of the subtle empowerment - and moral compass - of an older woman that refuses to give up on life.

Special Features

  • Audio commentary with director Lee Chang-dong and critic Kim Young-jin
  • The Making of Poetry
  • Onset with Lee Chang-dong and Yun Jeong-hie
  • The Legendary Actress: Yun Jeong-hie
  • Interview with Ahn Nae-sang
  • Korean Theatrical Trailer, UK Theatrical Trailer