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| VoxAlissa WilkinsonIt’s a gorgeous film, and Chou’s camera moves in a way that frames and heightens Freddie’s emotion. This is a mood piece, at times one with almost abstract aims, and it’s a joy to be swept away in it. |
| The PlaylistJason BaileyReturn to Seoul begins as an intimately off-the-cuff stranger-in-strange-land story and becomes a sprawling epic of personal discovery. It’s one of the best films of the year. |
| Los Angeles TimesCarlos AguilarA staggering masterwork that reveals itself unhurriedly, one permutation at a time, Chou’s third feature is perhaps the only film this year in which every single scene and every line of dialogue within them feel absolutely indispensable. The richness in every detail, and their unexpected ramifications over time, make for a one-of-a-kind character study. |
| The IndependentClarisse LoughreyGo back to your roots, we’re always told, and you’ll find your heart’s true home. But in Davy Chou’s daring and mesmeric Return to Seoul, an adoptee’s search for her birth parents tears open wounds and unearths neither meaning nor resolution. |
| CineVueChristopher MachellDavy Chou’s Return to Seoul is a visceral, astonishingly assured work, compelling, rarely predictable, and vital. |
| Original-CinKaren GordonLed by a stunning performance by first-time actor Park Ji-Min and based on a real-life adoptee’s reunion with her biological parents, Return to Seoul is a slow boil, a subtle powerhouse of a movie. |
| RogerEbert.comMonica CastilloChou’s Return to Seoul is an uneasy exploration of the concept of home and the heartache of losing it, following an imperfect heroine on her emotional journey to find a home in herself. |
| New York Magazine (Vulture)Angelica Jade BastienFreddie is a live wire given form, flesh, sinew. She’s a woman defined by what she refuses to be, and Chou appropriately refuses to offer any heartwarming, simple resolutions to the dilemmas marking her life. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzReturn to Seoul is not a dour, sombre thing – it is intense, electric and confrontational. |
| The New York TimesAmy NicholsonReturn to Seoul is a startling and uneasy wonder, a film that feels like a beautiful sketch of a tornado headed directly toward your house. |
