Return to Seoul (2022)
(Retour à Séoul)
Country: FR/GER/BEL/KOR/ROM/CAM/QAT
Technical: col 119m
Director: Davy Chou
Cast: Park Ji-min, Oh Kwang-rok, Guka Han, Kim Sun-young, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
Synopsis:
When her flight is cancelled, an adoptee diverts on a whim to South Korea and takes the first steps towards finding her biological parents. Culturally, however, she is unprepared for personal relationships, even as she inspires strong emotional connections with those around her. Over the years she renews contact, makes qualified advances towards intimacy, but remains a lone wolf.
Review:
Obscure character study, which seems to have come out of the Covid pandemic somehow. More than just a fish out of water, Freddie has serious problems of adaptation to social norms, as a conversation with her French mother shows. Characters come and go, and what to make of the sequence of epilogues that close the film remains unclear, particularly after the cryptic closing scene: a false email address, a return to the conceit of sight-reading the commenced the film. Audiences may find it as enervating as the heroine is unlikeable.
(Retour à Séoul)
Country: FR/GER/BEL/KOR/ROM/CAM/QAT
Technical: col 119m
Director: Davy Chou
Cast: Park Ji-min, Oh Kwang-rok, Guka Han, Kim Sun-young, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
Synopsis:
When her flight is cancelled, an adoptee diverts on a whim to South Korea and takes the first steps towards finding her biological parents. Culturally, however, she is unprepared for personal relationships, even as she inspires strong emotional connections with those around her. Over the years she renews contact, makes qualified advances towards intimacy, but remains a lone wolf.
Review:
Obscure character study, which seems to have come out of the Covid pandemic somehow. More than just a fish out of water, Freddie has serious problems of adaptation to social norms, as a conversation with her French mother shows. Characters come and go, and what to make of the sequence of epilogues that close the film remains unclear, particularly after the cryptic closing scene: a false email address, a return to the conceit of sight-reading the commenced the film. Audiences may find it as enervating as the heroine is unlikeable.
(Retour à Séoul)
Country: FR/GER/BEL/KOR/ROM/CAM/QAT
Technical: col 119m
Director: Davy Chou
Cast: Park Ji-min, Oh Kwang-rok, Guka Han, Kim Sun-young, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
Synopsis:
When her flight is cancelled, an adoptee diverts on a whim to South Korea and takes the first steps towards finding her biological parents. Culturally, however, she is unprepared for personal relationships, even as she inspires strong emotional connections with those around her. Over the years she renews contact, makes qualified advances towards intimacy, but remains a lone wolf.
Review:
Obscure character study, which seems to have come out of the Covid pandemic somehow. More than just a fish out of water, Freddie has serious problems of adaptation to social norms, as a conversation with her French mother shows. Characters come and go, and what to make of the sequence of epilogues that close the film remains unclear, particularly after the cryptic closing scene: a false email address, a return to the conceit of sight-reading the commenced the film. Audiences may find it as enervating as the heroine is unlikeable.