As a Korean American who is a unabashed Francophile, I cannot believe a film like Return to Seoul exists!!! Goodness, I just watched the trailer and I cannot wait to see this.
As a Korean American who is a unabashed Francophile, I cannot believe a film like Return to Seoul exists!!! Goodness, I just watched the trailer and I cannot wait to see this.
Finally saw Return to Seoul -- liked it a whole lot. The lead performance is excellent, really amazing for a first-timer. I loved the first 1/3 of the film, right to when she meets her dad and fam...I thought it lost something in the middle, but then it recovered in the third act.
The thing I like most about the movie is what you've concluded, too -- that there just aren't any easy answers or even emotional resolutions. When Freddie turns into a monster many years later in the back of the cab with her French boyfriend (she says something like, "I can make you disappear, just like that"), my heart sank just like it was meant to. She's not better. She'll never be better. And it makes sense, because the wound of an abandoned child can never really be healed.
Two tangential but related things while seeing RtS:
1) That heartfelt conversation between Nicole Kidman (daughter) and Dianne Wiest (mom) in Rabbit Hole -- I believe it takes place in the laundry room. Wiest lost a child (Kidman's sibling, I presume -- it's been many years so I can't recall exactly), and after Kidman's kid's death, Kidman asks her about how she dealt with it, and Wiest mentions this void, or hole, and how that void in a way becomes the child, and you end up cherishing that, too. I may be mangling the hell out of that scene, but that's the way I remember it.
2) Haley Lu Richardson's unabashed, exhaustive dancing in Columbus. Reminded me of Freddie's dancing in the bar.
As a Korean American who is a unabashed Francophile, I cannot believe a film like Return to Seoul exists!!! Goodness, I just watched the trailer and I cannot wait to see this.
It's awesome. Let us know what you think
Finally saw Return to Seoul -- liked it a whole lot. The lead performance is excellent, really amazing for a first-timer. I loved the first 1/3 of the film, right to when she meets her dad and fam...I thought it lost something in the middle, but then it recovered in the third act.
The thing I like most about the movie is what you've concluded, too -- that there just aren't any easy answers or even emotional resolutions. When Freddie turns into a monster many years later in the back of the cab with her French boyfriend (she says something like, "I can make you disappear, just like that"), my heart sank just like it was meant to. She's not better. She'll never be better. And it makes sense, because the wound of an abandoned child can never really be healed.
Two tangential but related things while seeing RtS:
1) That heartfelt conversation between Nicole Kidman (daughter) and Dianne Wiest (mom) in Rabbit Hole -- I believe it takes place in the laundry room. Wiest lost a child (Kidman's sibling, I presume -- it's been many years so I can't recall exactly), and after Kidman's kid's death, Kidman asks her about how she dealt with it, and Wiest mentions this void, or hole, and how that void in a way becomes the child, and you end up cherishing that, too. I may be mangling the hell out of that scene, but that's the way I remember it.
2) Haley Lu Richardson's unabashed, exhaustive dancing in Columbus. Reminded me of Freddie's dancing in the bar.