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12/30/06
Take Care of My Cat (2001)
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Reviews Counted: 27 Fresh: 22 Rotten:5 Average Rating: 6.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins
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 on sex, partying, and planning for college. These Korean girls have their share of fun, but they... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Doo-na Bae, Yo-won Lee, Ji-young Ok, Eun-shil Lee, Eun-joo Lee
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12/23/02
Take Care of My Cat offers a refreshingly different slice of Asian cinema.
12/03/02
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Jeong's women often interact via cell phone messaging, and one of the film's primary themes arises in the way contemporary relationships exist through wireless communication.
12/01/04
Jeong's evocative visuals of the urban landscape and her savvy deployment of appliances only deepens the resemblance such stories have to our own lives.
05/28/03
["Take Care of My Cat"] is an honestly nice little film that takes us on an examination of young adult life in urban South Korea through the hearts and minds of the five principals.
03/20/03
The film engages with the divergent paths taken, linked by childhood friendship and a mewling kitten, but a third act event is presented so abruptly it confuses the viewer until it rebounds somewhat with a satisfying closure.
03/16/03
The problems and characters it reveals are universal and involving, and the film itself -- as well its delightful cast -- is so breezy, pretty and gifted, it really won my heart.
01/16/03
The level of maturity displayed by this 33-year-old first-time feature director is astonishing, considering her inexperience and her subject matter.
12/17/02
Jae-eun Jeong's Take Care of My Cat brings a beguiling freshness to a coming-of-age story with such a buoyant, expressive flow of images that it emerges as another key contribution to the flowering of the South Korean cinema.
12/13/02
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A captivating coming-of-age story that may also be the first narrative film to be truly informed by the wireless age.
12/13/02
Jeong sensitively gives her film an underlying sadness as the young women cope with the changes in their lives
12/13/02
The year 2002 has conjured up more coming-of-age stories than seem possible, but Take Care of My Cat emerges as the very best of them.
12/10/02
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