

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
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.