Return to Seoul
2022 · Movie · R · 119 min · ★ 6.3 · 94% critics
After a sudden decision to visit friends, a young woman returns to South Korea for the first time since being adopted and raised in France. In a place that feels both familiar and foreign, she begins searching for connection and answers, and the trip gradually reshapes her sense of identity and where she belongs.
Also known as No Return · All the People I'll Never Be
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Details
- Original title
- Retour à Séoul
- Years
- 2022
- Release date
- 2022-11-18
- Language
- Korean
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Critic score
- 94/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.3/10 (476 votes)
About
You may like this if you want a character-driven, sometimes uncomfortable look at adoption, identity, and family ties, with shifting moods over time; Not for you if you need a likable lead or steady pacing like One Fine Morning.
Pros: thoughtful adoption perspective; strong central performance; cultural insight | Cons: hard-to-like lead; uneven second half; pacing feels slow
Themes
- identity
- adoption
- family reunion
- journey
- french woman
- international adoption
- seoul, south korea
- searching for biological parents
- korean culture
Awards & recognition
- International Submission to the Academy Awards · 2023 · nominated
Cast & crew
Park Ji-min
as Freddie
Oh Kwang-rok
as Father
Guka Han
as Tena
Kim Sun-young
as Aunt
Yoann Zimmer
as Maxime
Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
as Andre
Heo Jin
as Grandmother
Son Seung-beom
as Dongwan "French-speaking friend"
Kim Dong-seok
as Jiwan "The boy with the fringe"
- EB
Emeline Briffaud
as Lucie
Directed by Davy Chou