🎬 The Poet

Oscar is an unsuccessful poet and professional failure. He still lives with his mother and when he is not reciting his own work, he staggers drunk through the streets of Medellín. An offer to become a mentor to a young student brings him an unexpected chance to take his life into his own hands. If he does not mess it up again. An absurd comedy by director Simón Mesa Sota, awarded the Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival, demonstrates with biting irony how every good deed is deservedly accompanied by a cruel yet oddly poetic retribution.