Release date: May 2010
Sixty-six year old Mija is just managing to scrape by on a pension and the money she makes taking care of a disabled man. She is raising her grandson, a surly high-school student, with no help from her divorced daughter who lives far away. Mija has always followed a different drummer and now decides to take a class in writing poetry. The instructor’s advice on learning to really see and to appreciate the beauty in the everyday all around will serve her well as life is about to throw some major troubles her way. My take: CCC
Mija (Yoon Jung-hee / 윤정희, right) enters a world of blue and gold in this sequence when she visits a café for amateur poetry-reading night. For her, poetry is an entrée into another world, one that is sustaining.
