Return to Seoul

Plays March 24 in only the Zeitgeist Zinema 2 theater.] After an impulsive, sad, 27-year-old Frenchwoman (Ji-Min Park), who was adopted by her French parents, goes to Seoul to find her biological South Korean parents (Oh Kwang-rok and Cho-woo Choi) in Davy Chou's award-winning, realistic, down-to-earth, well-acted, confusing, slow-moving, somber, 118-minute film with great cinematography, she ends up meeting her depressed, guilt-ridden, alcoholic father and extended family (Hur Ouk-Sook, Kim Sun-young, et al.) with the help of a French-speaking inn employee (Guka Han), then two years later begins to sell weapons to help South Korea protect itself from North Korea when she meets an arms dealer (Louis-Do de Lencquesaing), and five years later eventually gets to meet her elusive, biological mother.
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