Story
The portrait of a woman in suspense, between return and restart in a country that is at once both home and abroad. Freddie was born in Korea, but adopted as a child by a French couple. In her mid-20s she returns, gets to know the country and tries hesitantly to make contact with her biological parents. In doing so, she not only reaches the limits of language and cultural idiosyncrasies, but also keeps alienating her hosts. The film accompanies Freddie closely on her quest, as she tries on and discards identities, reinvents and loses herself again, while each return to Seoul brings out different facets, both of her and of the country.
Director
DAVY CHOU (*1983 in France) is a French film-maker with Cambodian roots. His grandfather Van Chann was a producer in the golden 1960s of Cambodian film, before he disappeared without trace. Chou examined this epoch in his documentary Golden Slumbers (2012). In 2022, Return to Seoul ran in the section Un certain regard in Cannes.Info
Retour à Séoul
French, Korean, English
Asiascope | FF2022
France, Germany, Belgium, Qatar
2022
119 min
OV with German subtitles
Davy Chou
Davy Chou
Park Ji-Min, Oh Kwang-Rok, Guka Han, Kim Sun-Young, Yoann Zimmer, Louis-Do Lencquesaing, Hur Ouk-Sook, Son Seung-Beom, Kim Dong-Seok, Émeline Briffaud, Lim Cheol-Hyun
Charlotte Vincent, Katia Khazak
Thomas Favel
Vincent Villa, Dirk Bombey
Dounia Sichov
Jérémie Arcache, Christophe Musset
Choi Chi-Youl Choi, Shin Bo-Koung
Claire Dubien, Yi Choong-Yun
Rapid Eye Movies
MK2 Films
Aurora Films
Vandertastic (Hanneke van der Tas); Frakas Productions (Cassandre Warnauts, Jean-Yves Roubin)
Rapid Eye Movies, Stephan Holl: office@rapideyemovies.de
Tags
Coming of AgeLonelinessFamily and RelationshipsWomenGlobalisationMigration and OriginsMotherTravellingFather