Theme Tuesday - Lee Changdong - Poetry
For November 2018, I will be exploring and revisiting the works of one of South Korea’s greatest cinematic storytellers - Lee Changdong - which will culminate in an assessment of his latest film, Burning. In Lee Changdong’s films so far, big emotions and dramatic, often public, displays are common. Not so in Poetry in which Yoon Jeong-hee plays Yang Mi-ja, a woman who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, who must deal with extremely difficult circumstances and events on top