New York Times Praises Actress Yoon Jung-hee

Published on 2011/02/05 | Source

In today's New York Times, Frank Lidz interviews revered Korean actress Yoon Jung-hee, star of "Poetry". Described as "Lee Chang-dong's intricate meditation on art and empathy", the film opens Friday in New York.

Here is the NY Times Article.

Paris-based Yoon, 66, appeared in some 330 movies from 1967 to 1994, the year she scaled back her acting. "Poetry" is her first feature film since.

Writing about Yoon's role in "Poetry", which has already been acclaimed at film festivals around the world, Lidz explains: "She plays Mi-ja, a pensioner in a provincial town who signs up for a poetry class and struggles to find inspiration in everyday beauty. Her attempts at writing are complicated by the onset of dementia, the demands of mercy sex from the stroke victim she cares for, and the news that her sullen teenage grandson, whom she is raising herself, was involved in the gang rape of a classmate, leading to her suicide".