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Fish Tank
Why this pick
Like Return to Seoul, it follows a volatile young woman through emotional dislocation, using raw naturalism, fractured family ties and an unsentimental, intimate point of view.
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MOVIE2022 1h 52m FRA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Return to Seoul
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
Its cool, precise visual style and emotionally opaque central relationship create a similarly challenging portrait of a young woman discovering herself through choices she cannot yet understand.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A 25-year-old woman impulsively returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born before being adopted and raised in France and starts looking for her biological parents in a country she knows so little about, taking her life in new and unexpected directions.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Park Ji-Min
Freddie
Oh Kwang-rok
Freddie's Korean Father
Kim Sun-young
Korean Aunt
Yoann Zimmer
Maxime
Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
André
Heo Jin
Grandmother