Return to Seoul

Retour à Séoul

Laure Badufle/Davy Chou | 2022 | 115 MINS

France | Subtitles

International Panorama: France

On an impulse to reconnect with her origins, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea where she was born before being adopted and raised in France. The headstrong young woman starts looking for her biological parents in a country she knows so little about.

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A staggering masterwork that reveals itself unhurriedly, one permutation at a time, Chou’s third feature is perhaps the only film this year in which every single scene and every line of dialogue within them feel absolutely indispensable.

The richness in every detail, and their unexpected ramifications over time, make for a one-of-a-kind character study. Frédérique starts to track down her biological family resulting in startling consequences.

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