At the risk of giving too much away about this wonderful flick, I've decided upon a tablet format for this review as well.
Poetry is a fascinating and often heartbreaking story focusing around an older woman desperate for fulfillment, vision, and control over her thoughts and memories. At the center of it is a behemoth of a performance by Jeong-he Yoon, displaying a brave vulnerability throughout with sensitivity and delicacy. Points of the film will have you feeling as light as a feather from its sheer loveliness, other points will have your jaw to the floor in disturbing disbelief. With a runtime of approximately two and a half hours, it did tend to cinematically ramble a bit in its last half hour where it got slightly distracted from the beautiful simplicity of the central and most interesting storyline, but it compensates with a final scene of pure visual poetry that rivals any film sequence since the new millennium.
Grade: A-
Which leaves us with these results after this first weekend of the New York Film Festival.
Of Gods and Men: C
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives: A+
Poetry: A-
Next up: Inside Job this Friday!
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