One of the most prominent cinematic voices of Kazakhstan is back this year with a new movie, “Poet”, which premiered at the Tokyo International Film Festival where it won the Best Director Award.
The film focuses on Didar, an unrecognised poet in contemporary Kazakhstan, who supports his wife and child by working in a struggling newspaper. As both his capacities border on extinction, due to the influence of social media and digital technology and also because Kazakhstan is about to adopt English as its main language, both Didar and his colleagues frequently discuss the issues their work and art in general face in the contemporary, globalised world. Eventually, while eating with his wife in a high-class restaurant, he stumbles upon an old classmate, who has put his literature studies behind and is now a successful restaurant owner with ties to a number of powerful businessmen. One of those asks Didar...
The film focuses on Didar, an unrecognised poet in contemporary Kazakhstan, who supports his wife and child by working in a struggling newspaper. As both his capacities border on extinction, due to the influence of social media and digital technology and also because Kazakhstan is about to adopt English as its main language, both Didar and his colleagues frequently discuss the issues their work and art in general face in the contemporary, globalised world. Eventually, while eating with his wife in a high-class restaurant, he stumbles upon an old classmate, who has put his literature studies behind and is now a successful restaurant owner with ties to a number of powerful businessmen. One of those asks Didar...
- 12/10/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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