'Return to Seoul' is a film that's easy to love: It has a killer score, a magnetic protagonist and a gorgeous backdrop. It's a coming-of-age story that contemplates the impermanence of who we are.
is a film that's easy to love: it has a killer soundtrack, a magnetic protagonist, and a gorgeous cinematic backdrop filled with rich colors and empty bottles of Soju. At its core, it tells a coming of age story — one that challenges the confines of"childhood" and"adulthood" and contemplates the impermanence of who we are.
Davy Chou's third feature film revolves around a 25-year-old French adoptee named Frédérique Benoît , Freddie for short, and her quest to track down her biological parents in South Korea. Freddie is impulsive, electric and effortlessly cool; she does what she wants and arrives in Seoul spontaneously with no knowledge of the culture or language.
Although it is Freddie who initially seeks out her father, their encounter leaves her feeling more disconnected than when she came — and she begins to harbor a quiet resentment that often takes the shape of anger. When he asks her to move to Korea to live with his family, she adamantly says to her English-speaking aunt ,"He has to understand that I'm French now. I have my family and friends over there. I am not going to live in Korea.
The three-part film follows Freddie over the course of eight years; its color tones shift with her evolution — taking on hues of gray, deep reds and warm yellows. Freddie cuts her hair before letting it grow, moves from one lover to the next and pivots careers. But just when Freddie seems to have finally settled into herself, she surprises you.
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