Evocative and offbeat, Davy Chou’s film follows a young woman, Freddie (Park Ji-min), who was born in South Korea before being adopted by French parents. Somewhat against those parents’ wishes, Freddie travels to Korea to seek out her birth family. She’s searching for specific people, of course, but she is also reaching for something intangible. Return to Seoul spans nearly a decade as Freddie struggles for a sense of place in the world. She’s a fascinating creation, prickly and mercurial and, for a spell, immoral. But Chou eventually rounds his film into something compassionate, a bittersweet collage of a young life in flux.
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From Vanity Fair:
Evocative and offbeat, Davy Chou’s film follows a young woman, Freddie (Park Ji-min), who was born in South Korea before being adopted by French parents. Somewhat against those parents’ wishes, Freddie travels to Korea to seek out her birth family. She’s searching for specific people, of course, but she is also reaching for something intangible. Return to Seoul spans nearly a decade as Freddie struggles for a sense of place in the world. She’s a fascinating creation, prickly and mercurial and, for a spell, immoral. But Chou eventually rounds his film into something compassionate, a bittersweet collage of a young life in flux.