A Low-Budget Character Drama With Maximalist Thrills
<em>Return to Seoul</em> is a story of adoption and belonging that resists easy sentimentality.
by David Sims
Feb 18, 2023
2 minutes
Freddie Benoît, the 25-year-old protagonist of , presents herself as a nomad who’s wandered into a foreign country on a whim. The viewer meets her mid-drink at a bar in Seoul and quickly figures out that the friends she’s sitting with are essentially strangers, a random assortment of new pals she’s enticed while holding court and pouring soju. Freddie, short for Frédérique, is a French woman who was adopted
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