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Return to Seoul

Park Ji-Min

Oh Kwang-rok

Guka Han

Kim Sun-young

Yoann Zimmer

Louis-Do de Lencquesaing

Heo Jin

Son Seung-beom

Kim Dong-seok

Emeline Briffaud

Lim Cheol-hyun

Myung-hee Chung Lee

Joo-yeoh Kim

Régine Vial Goldberg

Cho-woo Choi

Cha Mi-kyung

Young-sik Ko

You-seop Lee

Ae-ri Kim

Yeon-ok Lim

Lee Hyang-hee

Joon-ho Lee

Ioana Luculescu

Hae-in Song

Bitnara Oh

Bok-soon Hwang

Cho Young-Dong

Kug-Hwan Park

Pyeong-ahn Lee

Ji-hoon Shim

Shin Dong-ho

Yang-ja Yoon

Young-jae Joe

Jinun

Diki Kim

Tae-Seong Jeong

Eun-sun Jung

Nam-Soo Baik

Seong-oh Kim

Meong-ja Yang

Gun-woo

Sang-dae Lee

Davy Chou

Katia Khazak

Charlotte Vincent

Dounia Sichov

Thomas Favel

Choi Chi-youl

Jeong Yoon-heon

Christophe Hollebeke

Diana Paroiu

Bo Koung Shin

Jérémie Arcache

Vincent Villa

Pascale Guégan

Christophe Musset

Claire Dubien

Bang Han-sol

Steve Chen

Laure Badufle

Camille Fleury

Bertrand Prévot

Elias Vervecken

Yannig Willmann

Kim Ju-young

Dirk Bombey

Barbara Juniot

Marina Lerchs

Kang Dong-geon

Lim Na-moo

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I think I may have warmed to this film better had I not taken an instant dislike to "Freddie" (Park Ji-min). Now it's certainly a testament to this actor that she is able to successfully - and pretty immediately - engender a sense that her character is a rather selfish, manipulative and unpleasant individual; but I'm afraid I struggled to remain engaged as her troubled story of adoption and of her re-introduction to her birth family is played out over the next two hours. "Freddie" appears to have been happily brought up by a couple in France, so her increasingly thoughtless behaviour doesn't really have an anchor - and as we progress and she becomes more obnoxious - as exemplified by her final scene in the car with poor old "Maxime" (Yoann Zimmer) - I found the story has just about run out of merit. The acting is generally good. The efforts from her slightly dipso dad (Oh Kwang-rok) is convincing as he has to reconcile the discovery of his long-lost daughter with his dependency on the bottle and her own pretty obvious disdain for the man. It also offers us quite an interesting insight into just how adoptions worked as the decline of the French colonial system in post-war Korea led to many children being offered by parents who hoped that a childhood and education in France would offer greater opportunity, but again with "Freddie" that isn't really developed. What has turned her into this rather objectionable person is rather left aside. It has an element of "be careful what you wish for" to it, and is, at times, an interesting observation on the stresses of the post-adoption processes but I just didn't like or care about her and so my enthusiasm just waned.

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"Hiding behind a character makes it easier to talk about intimate things" Davy Chou

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Davy Chou & Park Ji-Min on Identity and Creating Freddie

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Davy Chou & Ji-min Park talk about "All the People I'll Never Be"/"Retour à Séoul" at Cannes 2022

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