Take Care of My Cat (Goyangileul Butaghae)
A joint diary of five girls standing on the tulmutuous summit of adulthood.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 6, 2004
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: Kino Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Doo-na Bae & Lee Yo-won | |
Performer: | Ji-young Ok, Eun-shil Lee, Eun-joo Lee & Tae-kyung Uhm | |
Directed by | Jae-eun Jeong | |
Edited by | Hyun-mee Lee | |
Screenwriting by | Jae-eun Jeong | |
Composition by | M&F | |
Produced by | Gi-min Oh | |
Director of Photography: | Young-hwan Choi |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/4 --
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.
Newsday
...Jeong sensitively gives her film an underlying sadness as the women cope with the changes in their lives...
Box Office
Rating: 3/4 --
Take Care is nicely performed by a quintet of actresses, but nonetheless it drags during its 112-minute length.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Rating: B- --
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.
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Reeling Reviews
Rating: B- --
["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.
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Reeling Reviews
Rating: C --
The film wasn't preachy, but it was feminism by the book.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 3/4 --
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.
Chicago Tribune
Product Description:
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.
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- UPC: 738329035327
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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