EIFF Review: Poem

Posted by: Scott Hayes  •  October 15, 2004 @ 11:59am

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I would recommend that people attend this beautiful, powerful, artistic, and strange collection of situational poetry. That is, poems by various authors are read out and related to different life experiences, such as love, death, birth, truth, beauty, etc.

This was a pretty complex and challenging movie to enjoy because it's in German, so the subtitles are key. My eyes got quite a workout going back and forth from action to subtitles and back again, non-stop. It really is a spectacle of imagery, sometimes beautiful and sometimes stark.

Poem is screening at the Princess II Theatre on Friday, October 15th at 9:00pm and at the Princess Theatre on Monday, October 18th at 5:00pm.