Poetry - Community Movie Night

Join us for a film discussion every Friday at 4pm! Each week we will feature 5 different film selections from Kanopy. You will have all week to watch the film, then join us for the discussion Fridays at 4pm. When you register with an email, a link for a Zoom meeting will be sent to you on Friday morning.

Poetry: Mija (veteran actress Yun Jung-hee) is a beautiful woman in her sixties who moves gracefully through life, contemplating a trivial daily routine that is ill-suited to her refined persona. With elegance and a dash of eccentricity, Mija takes care of her ungrateful grandson Wook (Lee David) and makes a living by cleaning house for an elderly man who, though paralyzed by a stroke, still responds to her charm with bouts of drug-induced arousal.

On a whim, Mija enrolls in a poetry class at the local cultural centre and begins a personal quest to find the perfect words to describe her feelings. However, she's plagued by the onset of Alzheimer's disease, and struggles with new vocabulary and the challenges of the creative process. When her world is turned upside down by the discovery of a monstrous crime, it is Mija's unique and touching poetry that allows her to defy the weight of shame and distance herself from a painful proximity to violence. (140 minutes, 2010).

This and other films are available through Kanopy with your library card.