"Poetry" won the prize at te Cannes film festival!

Korean film "Poetry" won the best screen play prize at the Cannes film festival on Sunday, news reports said.

South Korean director Lee Chang-dong poses after winning the Best Screenplay award for his film "Poetry" during the photocall of the closing ceremony at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival on May 23, 2010 in Cannes. (AP-Yonhap News)The film, directed by Lee Chang-dong, tells a story of an old lady who finds happiness in learning of poetry for the first time in her life while a harsh reality forces her to suffer guilt and fear, Yonhap News said.The film “Ha Ha Ha” by South Korean director Hong Sang-soo won the top prize at the Cannes film festival sidebar competition, Un Certain Regard, on Sunday. The movie is about a trip down memory lane with a filmmaker and a movie critic sharing memories about their separate trips to Tongyoung, South Gyeongsang Province. South Korean top actors and actresses including Kim Sang-gyung, Yu Jun-sang, Moon So-ri, Ye Ji-won and Youn Yuh-jung starred in the film, receiving no compensation. Hong has a reputation of making movies in such a way.“I hope this prize can help many friends who made the movie together. I am going to keep on making movies, in the same way I used to make them,” said Hong after winning the prize. Actor Yu Jun-sang and actress Ye Ji-won were by his side at the festival.
(claire@heraldm.com)

I'm really proud of Korean film recognized as the best movie in the world. I haven't know the director, Yi Chang do, but It turn out that he had directed film "millyang", the actor Jun- do yun plays the heroine. I'm not sure the movie is my taste, or I'll try watching that movie someday.