A South Korean woman in her sixties enrolls in a poetry class as she grapples with her faltering memory and her grandson's appalling wrongdoing.
Acting
Yoon Jeong-hee's final role: devastating restraint, unspeakable weight
Direction
Lee Chang-dong lets horror exist in peripheral vision
Writing
Poetry submissions become moral testimony
Director
Lee Chang-dong
Yoon Jeong-hee
Yang Mi-ja
David Lee
Jong-wook
Kim Hee-ra
Elder Kang
Ahn Nae-sang
Ki-beom's Father
Park Myung-shin
Hee-jin's Mother
Jang Hye-jin
Mr. Kang's Second Daughter-in-Law
Kim Nam-jin
Soo-ok
Kim Jong-goo
Park Sang-tae
Kim Hye-jung
Jo Mi-hye
Min Bok-gi
Soon-jeong's Father
Kim Ja-young
Bus Woman
Kim Gye-sun
Supermarket Woman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Yoon Jeong-hee came out of 16-year retirement for this role; she never acted again.
The real 2004 Miryang gang rape case inspired the film's central crime, though Lee Chang-dong deliberately obscures details to implicate the viewer in the grandmother's willful blindness.
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