A Matter of Interpretation

Lee Kwang-kuk : 2014
Kkum-bo-da hae-mong

A detective who is better at interpreting dreams than at solving murders, and an actress without an audience meet on a bench in the park. The actress has stormed out of a theatre after throwing a fit at her troupe members when no one came to her play. She then meets a suspicious detective who explains how he saw a woman who committed suicide nearby. The detective's tale of the woman who suffocated to death in a car is followed by the actress attempting suicide in a car, and her discovery of the detective locked up in the car boot. Her dream is the starting point of a story-within-a-story, using dream logic to play hide-and-seek with reality. What is real and what is not is a matter of interpretation. Lee Kwang-kuk's second feature received the CGV Movie Collage Award when it premiered at Busan International Film Festival 2014, and had its European premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2015.