A POET
Winner of the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival. Middle-aged and erratic, Oscar is a poet who has given up.
Unemployed and living with family, he wanders the streets of Medellín in a
drunken stupor, lamenting the state of literature in his home country, where he
has succumbed to the cliché of the tortured artist. However, the opportunity to
mentor a young student offers a chance at redemption, if he doesn’t screw it up
first. With darkly comic pathos, Simón Mesa Soto has crafted a raw and
riotous farce about how good deeds are often met with the universe’s idea of
cruel and unusually poetic punishment. (Columbia,
2025, 123 min., Spanish | Dir. Simón Mesa Soto)
