A Quiet Dream - First teaser screening for London Korean Film Festival 2017

The London Korean Film Festival will return this November with even more of the latest and greatest in Korean cinema, but to tide you over until the end of the year they'll be running a number of Central London teaser screenings.

The first of these, A Quiet Dream, is set to take place this coming Monday, March 20, 7.30pm at Regent Street Cinema where tickets are currently on sale. Here is a little more information about the film to whet your appetite as provided by the LKFF:

A QUIET DREAM:

Internationally acclaimed director Zhang Lu’s 11th feature film, A Quiet Dream revolves around the everyday lives of four friends - a young woman and three less-than-ordinary men. Yeri, a Chinese Korean immigrant, cares for her paralysed father whilst running the small ‘Hometown Bar’ in the impoverished Su-saek neighbourhood of Seoul. Ik-june is a former small-time gangster expelled for laughing during his boss’s funeral; Jong-bin is the milk-drinking, epileptic son of the Hometown Bar’s landlord; and Jung-bum is an introverted North Korean defector who suffers from depression.

This film doesn’t follow a conventional narrative structure, but rather unfolds quietly as if taken from a small segment of their everyday lives, lives that are spent hanging out at Yeri’s bar. Although each has their own complex issues to deal with, they somehow muddle through with little more than friendship and laughter.

An interesting element to this film can be seen with the three male characters who are played by a trio of prominent Korean film directors of the same name. Each of the directors steps in front of the camera for A Quiet Dream to play a character that they had previously created in their earlier films, namely: Ik-june from Breathless (2008), Jong-bin from The Unforgiven (2005) and Jung-bum from The Journals of Musan (2010). This adds to the film’s dreamy and mysterious texture, blurring the line between fantasy and what’s on screen and the reality outside of the screen.

Much lauded, the film opened last year’s Busan International Film Festival and was invited to the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2017.

Tickets are available now via Regent Street Cinema. 

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