An aspiring poet joins a cynical team of journalists in nineteenth-century Paris. When he agrees to write rave reviews for bribes, achieving material success at the expense of his conscience, and soon discovers that the written word can be an instrument of both beauty and deceit in this sumptuous adaptation of Honore de Balzac's epic novel, Lost Illusions.

An aging poet, Younghwan, summons his two estranged sons to a solitary hotel beside the Han River because he feels his death is near. While waiting for them to arrive, he meets two women out walking in the new-fallen snow and is struck by their angelic beauty. But the women have come to the hotel to do some healing of their own. As Younghwan moves between the women and his bickering sons, he also moves between his two minds: one that walks on the...

Despite being one of the most original composers and poets of the modern age, Leonard Cohen's muse is legendary. A man of deep and meditative thought, Cohen has always been inspired and influenced by those he is affected by, musicians, poets, writers, lovers... but he has never "borrowed" from the work of his idols. His muse is a spiritual energy which inspires him to establish his own magical creations. This film explores the work of Leonard Cohen...

A bemused would-be poet gets entangled with an unctuous cemetery entrepreneur, a mom-obsessed mortician and other bizarre characters.