Ray Pride

(Goyangileul butaghae) Thirty-two-year-old Jae-eun Jeong is one of South Korea's few female directors, and her 2001 coming-of-age story about five young women in the working-class port city of Inchon struggling against life after high school is a tender delight. A beautifully shaped and observed portrait of the limbo between school and career, "Take Care of My Cat" is one of the freshest movies I've seen in a while--contemporary, musical, inventive, touching and utterly without guff or clichés.

"Take Care of My Cat" opens for a week on Friday at the Gene Siskel Film Center.

(2003-01-15)

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DVD Tip of the Week
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Playing by fear
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Bringing out the dead
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The Six Days of Christmas
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Tip of the Week
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