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Take Care of My Cat

A joint diary of five girls standing on the tulmutuous summit of adulthood.

2001 · 1h 52m · N/A Drama
Directed by Jeong Jae-eun

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The fashionable Hye-joo 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 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 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.

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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.

Gene Seymour, Newsday
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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.

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Fresh

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.

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Fresh

A captivating coming-of-age story that may also be the first narrative film to be truly informed by the wireless age.

Paul Malcolm, L.A. Weekly
Fresh

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

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle

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