News — Cho Sung-bin

Jeonju 2018 Review: Dreamer (2018)  Reviewed by Andrew Chan (FCCA) The quest for the next generation of Korean cinema continues with Dreamer. Like Graduation, the theme of this year’s Jeonju seems to be angry outlook of youth and lack of hope and aspirations in the bleak modern society. Dreamer is clearly a juxtaposition, modern South Korea is being depicted as not much better than the lack of “freedom” that the North Korean deflector comes from. Director Cho Sung-bin goes dark and brutal in his portrayal of modern society, young people restored to immigrating overseas to do laundry, drugs and murder...