(It’s not a large one: As in much of his recent work, the writer-director also assumes sole producing, editing, lensing and scoring credit.) One hopes she is now, like co-star and production manager Kim Minhee, a permanent member of the Hong company. As Junhee, she is again a fount of complicated, initially internalized but eventually betrayed feeling, emerging first in sharp, subtle gestures and later in unbottled torrents of rage and regret. The most welcome common factor between the two, however, is returning actor Lee Hyeyoung, a revelation to many following a long career stretch in Korean TV. Only this time, he just can't let go.Superficially, at least, the previous Hong work onto which “The Novelist’s Film” can most obviously be mapped is last year’s superb Cannes entry “In Front of Your Face.” Both are portraits of a middle-aged female artist of some renown, away from home, shuffling between a series of old and new acquaintances, who gradually tease out from her some measure of self-effacing truth. Finding himself dangerously out of his depth, Liam knows he should walk away. It's not long before Liam and his pals' crazy schemes lead them into all sorts of trouble. But first he's got to raise the cash-no small feat for a young man. Liam is determined to rescue his mother from both of them, which means creating a safe haven beyond their reach. Her boyfriend, Stan, is a crude and obnoxious drug pusher is partnered by Liam's equally rough and foul-mouthed, mean-spirited grandfather.
He is waiting for the release of his mother, Jean, from prison where she is completing a prison term for a crime that her boyfriend actually committed. Liam is a young, restless teen struggling to realize his dream in the gritty and dismal streets of Greenock, where unemployment is rampant and little hope is available to the city's youth. Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.
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