Dir. Davy Chou
2022 | 119 mins | France, South Korea
English, French, Korean with English subtitles
Park Ji-min, Oh Kwang-rok, Guka Han

SHOWING TIMES:

• Fri 19 May: 5.20pm
• Sat 20 May: 5pm
• Sun 21 May: 5pm
• Mon 22 May: 5.20pm
• Tue 23 May: 2pm
• Wed 24 May: 8pm
• Thu 25 May: 2pm

On a whim, 25-year-old Freddie (played by French sculptor and painter Park Ji-Min) visits South Korea, where she was born before being adopted and raised in France. A headstrong young woman who has a hard time fitting in – and a habit of switching selves to defy other people’s (and perhaps her own) expectations – she fascinates everyone she meets. An uncategorisable whirlwind, while in the country she decides to seek out her biological parents, her impromptu search taking her to new and unexpected places.

Cambodian-French filmmaker Davy Chou (Golden Slumbers, Diamond Island) – himself the French-born grandson of a producer who vanished in 1969 as the Khmer Rouge seized control of the country’s film industry – has created a strange, wise and unpredictable character study involving ideas of place and belonging, cultural duality and personal transformation. An audacious and ambitious film, appropriately rootless, it features a really stunning debut acting performance from Ji-Min.

F-RATED:

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