| Taking as its point of departure the figure of Antonia Pozzi, a unique, mature and passionate poet in 20th-century Italy who committed suicide in 1938 at the tender age of 26, "Poetry, you see me" is also a reflection on the role of the artist and the poet in that era and today. The film gives voice to her poetry and her tortured existential search, to her problems with her social class, the upper-middle class Milan that kept her from living sincerely and passionately, and with a male-dominated world that dismissed her poetic talent as emotional disorder. [author's text] |
