Review of Poetry

A unique blend of lyricism and sordid realism. Most movies couldn't pull off the fragmentation of its narrative into these three seemingly discrete elements:

-The struggle into dementia

• The lady attending a poetry class

-The grandson's trouble with the law and the grandmother's efforts to save him.

Done with a graceful restraint, there is a constant sense of unspoken suffering in every scene and the moments of voice over poetry are profoundly poignant as this woman seeks by any way she can to have some sense of voice in the world.