Poetry (2009) NYT Critics' Pick

[lsanderson]

Yun Jung-hee in “Poetry.”
Consider an Apple, Consider the World
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: February 10, 2011

The women and few men sitting at their desks in the film “Poetry” have open faces and smiles. They’re good pupils, these older people who have come to the cultural center to learn. Perhaps because they have chosen to be there, they don’t have the look of sullen resentment and cultivated boredom that glazes the faces of the high school students glimpsed now and again. Instead these latter-day bards gaze at the man who has come to say something to them about art and maybe life. Instead he holds up an apple and talks about seeing. More