After an impulsive travel decision to visit friends, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born before being adopted and raised in France. Freddie suddenly finds herself embarking on an unexpected journey in a country she knows so little about, taking her life in new and unexpected directions.
Return to Seoul is the story of a French-Korean adoptee named Freddie, a defiant and self-assured young woman who revels in a hedonistic and promiscuous lifestyle during an impromptu visit to her motherland. Then, she decides to track down one of her birth parents. But in this crisp and nuanced character study, elevated by a naturalistic, almost documentarian filmmaking style, the Hollywood ...
Return to seoul. Davy Chou France, 2022. But it’s Ji-Min’s staggering debut performance that proves the standout of the show: primarily a visual artist, this is her first acting role, and she’s a complete natural, summoning a story with a single face-flicker or dance move.An ambivalent, accusatory depiction of intercountry adoption, Return to Seoul mines South Korea’s controversial adoption history to craft a smart if maddening character study. Tara Brady. May 5, 2023.
