Once-promising poet Oscar has become the cliché of the drunken, tortured artist, but an opportunity to mentor a talented young student from an impoverished background might offer a chance at redemption—if he can manage not to screw that up, too. Winner of the Un Certain Regard prize at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, A Poet is at once an absurdist cringe comedy, barbed arts-world farce, and poignant portrait of the human condition.