Indie cineaste Lee Kwang-kuk returns to Busan with his fifth film, Beautiful Dreamer, a sensitive tale of social stigma that dials down the wry humour that marked earlier works such as A Matter of Interpretation and A Tiger in Winter. The story focuses on two women -- middle-aged In-seon in a provincial town and the young Su-yeon in Seoul -- both are quiet, struggling to express themselves in their lives, to the evident frustration of those trying to be close to them. Switching between their viewpoints, the film soon reveals their connection and the reason for their antisocial behaviour. They are in fact mother and daughter and both are reeling from the husband and father who took his own life a few years earlier. Not...
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