Lee Chang-dong Wants to Make You Cry Again

Lee Chang-dong is one of the most respected South Korean filmmakers. Having only made three films he became the minister of Culture and Tourism from 2003 to 2004. His first movies are Green Fish, Peppermint Candy and Oasis. All won acclaim internationally and Peppermint Candy is on my best of modern Korean film list. After a long absence from the film scene he gave us Secret Sunshine, which was one of the most emotionally devastating films I have ever seen, in 2007. Today I give to you the trailer for his new film Poetry, which sounds equally as depressing as all of his other films. The official synopsis is as follows:

A profound story of an elderly woman in search of the fundamental poetry from her life. Aside from being sentenced with an Alzheimer’s disease, she faces another dilemma when her teen-aged grandson who is under her care is found to be one of the assaulters of a girl from his junior-high school who had committed suicide.

And the trailer.