Between bouts of partying and freeform dancing, newcomer Park Ji-min brings a𝕴 near-musical virtuosity to this questing character piece. Writer/director Davy Chou knows his lead’s worth: trusting deeply in Park, he anchors a captivating portrait of choppy selfhood in her febrile nuances of expression.
Born in South Korea, Park’s Freddie was raised in France by foster parents. At 25, she revisits Seoul – by accide✨nt, she claims – and locates her birth parents, spurring a free-roaming journey of self-discovery that swerves between homefront clashes and hedonistic excesses.
Channelling Wong Kar-wai’s influen💫ce, Chou directs as if by intuition, taking radical turns and time jumps as Freddie’s episodic story develops. Not all of his twists convince – Freddie’s period selling arms, say – but his alert, watchful direction makes the film feel alive in eᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚach moment, centred on the now but ever poised to dart off on fresh trajectories.
Among a fine cast that also includes Oldboy’s Oh Kwang-Rok as her birth father, Park provides an immaculately instinctive focus for Chou’s picaresque plotting. Between bi🔯g nights out and shock career moves, she nails the impression of a woman suspended between stations, determined to map her own life routes. The score by Jérémie Arcache and Christophe Musset matches her impulsive quest beautifully: ushering Freddie from cafes to clubs, its unforced fluency beguiles.
Return To Seoul is in cinemas on May 5 and available on Mubi from July 7. The film first premiered at Cannes in 2022. For more 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming movies, check out our breakdown of all of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:2023 movie release dates.
