`Clean Up`: Busan Review
(WorldNews Italy)

Debut from Kwon Man-ki shares top prize in Busan´s New Currents section A woman who has hit rock bottom and more or less taken up residence there, Jung-ju works for a contract cleaning company by day, and at night, drinks to obliterate herself. She´s tortured by grief over the death of her son five years before, and by guilt over a secret from her past. When an 18 year-old ex-convict joins cleaning company, Jung-ju recognises him with a jolt, and realises her own part in his current, lamentable situation. This confident first feature from Kwon Man-ki asks...