Like a Dream -- Film Review

HONG KONG -- At one point in Clara Law's latest film, one of the characters says to another, "Perhaps this world is not meant to be comprehended." That could be said of "Like a Dream," a globe-trotting romantic drama that tries to be several things at once, never quite makes a concrete decision as to where to focus, and so ends up a disjointed and ill-defined curiosity more than a film.