Retour à Séoul: Drama in which a 25-year-old woman raised in France returns to South Korea to find her birth parents.
Plot and background
Freddie returns to South Korea for the first time at 25, the country where she was born before being adopted by a French couple and raised in France. In Seoul, she wants to explore her origins and locate her birth parents. Freddie is looking for her place in a homeland she knows little about. The journey steers the young woman’s life in new and unexpected directions and triggers big questions around home and identity within her.
“Return to Seoul” – background, cast, cinema release
French-Cambodian director Davy Chou dedicates “Return to Seoul”, after his film “Diamond Island”, once again to a portrait of a young person in the midst of a foreign metropolis. The filmmaker deals with the topic of adoption and the search for identity with great sensitivity. The director was inspired in 2011 when an adopted friend with a similar story took Chou to an emotional meeting with her biological father.
The leading actress Freddie is played by newcomer Park Ji-Min, while Korean actor Oh Kwang-rok, known from films such as “Oldboy” and “A Bittersweet Life”, plays her biological father, who is plagued by feelings of guilt. Kim Sun-young (“Three Sisters”), Louis-Do de Lencquesaing (“The Holy Family”), Yoann Zimmer (“As Happy As Possible”), Ouk-Sook Hur and Guka Han also star in the film.
The drama opens in cinemas here on 26 January 2023.
