‘A Poet’ Is a Movie About Artistic Frustration. For Its Director, It’s Also About the Experience of Making Indie Features
Tamara Ceaikovski
Simón Mesa Soto, who also teaches in his home country, directs the Cannes winner about a curmudgeonly, glory-less poet; it mirrors local filmmakers' own issues with trying to appease funders and appeal to a very limited audience. I may or may not have fought personally for Simón Mesa Soto’s “A Poet” to win best narrative feature from the Montclair Film Festival when I was a juror. Can I say that? While the film did not win the top prize, also-ran-ness is a significant strand of the film’s DNA:
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