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Take Care of My Cat

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Take Care of My Cat (2001)

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Reviews Counted:27

Fresh:22

Rotten:5

Average Rating:6.8/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Theatrical Release:Oct 18, 2002 Limited

Synopsis: Director Jeong Jae-eun's debut feature, TAKE CARE OF MY CAT, is a slick but sensitive portrayal of girlfriends on the cusp of adulthood. Hollywood films about recent high school grads tend to focus... Director Jeong Jae-eun's debut feature, TAKE CARE OF MY CAT, is a slick but sensitive portrayal of girlfriends on the cusp of adulthood. Hollywood films about recent high school grads tend to focus on sex, partying, and planning for college. These Korean girls have their share of fun, but they have critical life issues to deal with, and the film presents them in a painstakingly realistic way. The fashionable Hye-joo (Lee Yo-won) is focused on her career at a brokerage house. She's making a decent living, but her co-workers look down on her. Tae-hee (Bae Doo-na) is sick of living under the thumb of her domineering father. She spends her time doing volunteer work for a poet with cerebral palsy. Sullen Ji-young (Ok Ji-young) lives in poverty with her grandparents and struggles to find work. The girls, close friends in high school, find themselves drifting apart as their adult lives begin to take shape. Jeong gets flawless performances from her young cast, as her film shows how clashing values effect friendships as one grows older. Visually, she makes original use of onscreen text (and ubiquitous pagers and cell phones) to shrewdly emphasize the prevalence of technology in the girls' lives. [More]

Starring: Doo-na Bae, Yo-won Lee, Ji-young Ok, Eun-shil Lee

Starring: Doo-na Bae, Yo-won Lee, Ji-young Ok, Eun-shil Lee, Eun-joo Lee, Tae-kyung Uhm

Director: Jae-eun Jeong

Director: Jae-eun Jeong
Screenwriter: Jae-eun Jeong
Producer: Gi-min Oh
Composer: M&F
Studio: Kino International

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Take Care is nicely performed by a quintet of actresses, but nonetheless it drags during its 112-minute length.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
12/06/02
Edward Guthmann
Edward Guthmann
San Francisco Chronicle
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Take Care of My Cat offers a refreshingly different slice of Asian cinema.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
12/03/02
Jamie Russell
Jamie Russell
BBC
N/R

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Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
10/27/02
Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece
Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece
PopMatters

In this vivid, emotionally complex ensemble piece, Korean writer-director Jeong Jae-eun portrays this extraordinary turning point in every woman's life.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
10/22/02
Maria Garcia
Maria Garcia
Film Journal International

The episodic film makes valid points about the depersonalization of modern life. But the characters tend to be cliches whose lives are never fully explored.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
10/18/02
V.A. Musetto
V.A. Musetto
New York Post

Sluggishly paced but otherwise harmless drama about coming of age in South Korea.

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10/18/02
Jon Popick
Jon Popick
Planet Sick-Boy

A refreshing Korean film about five female high school friends who face an uphill battle when they try to take their relationships into deeper waters.

Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | comment Comment
10/18/02
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

Although laced with humor and a few fanciful touches, the film is a refreshingly serious look at young women.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
10/17/02
Ken Fox
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

A world in small, subtly acknowledging larger economic and cultural forces one moment, and in the next patiently observing the way a bowl of medicinal tea, seen turning in a microwave carousel, begins to describe its own slow epicycles.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
10/15/02
Ed Park
Ed Park
Village Voice
N/R

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10/15/02
Mark R. Leeper
Mark R. Leeper
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Evokes a palpable sense of disconnection, made all the more poignant by the incessant use of cell phones.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
10/14/02
Mike D'Angelo
Mike D'Angelo
Time Out New York

A sluggish pace and lack of genuine narrative hem the movie in every bit as much as life hems in the spirits of these young women.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
09/12/02
Kirk Honeycutt
Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter
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The filmmakers' eye for detail and the high standards of performance convey a strong sense of the girls' environment.

Full Review Source: Eye for Film | comment Comment
08/28/02
Keith H. Brown
Keith H. Brown
Eye for Film

As it abruptly crosscuts among the five friends, it fails to lend the characters' individual stories enough dramatic resonance to make us care about them.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
08/28/02
Stephen Holden
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