Dream

In his fifteenth feature, veteran Kim Ki-Duk has gathered the cream of the crop from South Korea’s current actors guild, and presents a bold film about love, memory and the mysteries of communication.

Acting adept Jô Odagiri plays the artist Jin, who has a nightmare about causing a car crash. Eventually, he discovers that the details of his dream are not all in his mind but the unpleasant truth. Only, it is not his truth. When Jin meets the angst-ridden Ran, he discovers that what he did in the nightmare, was done by Ran in reality. She caused the accident and the police are catching on to her. As the plot tangles and turns, the two main characters are connected through dreams, while the division between reality and fantasy gradually blurs.

Ki-Duk, known for never shying away from ambivalence, plays mind-games on the audience, never really letting on what is real and what is not. Dream is nothing but a serene adventure, continuously digging its way through the ambiguous tunnels of the human mind.

Premiere Status
Nordic Premiere: Orig. title
Bi-mong: Cast
Joe Odagiri, Lee Na-young: Producer
Song Myung-Chul: Script
Kim Ki-Duk: Music
Ji Park: Spoken language
Korean