Screening times:
Friday, August 7, 6:30 PM

Jeong Jae-un | South Korea | 2001 | 112 mins
Korean with English subtitles

A sleeper hit at the time of its release, Jeong Jae-eun’s perceptive debut Take Care of My Cat chronicles the lives of five graduating friends whose bonds begin to fracture as they contend with their share of squashed dreams and unequal opportunities. Set against the industrial backdrop of Incheon, a port city adjacent to Seoul and bearing the brunt of South Korea’s ruthless globalization effort, Take Care of My Cat expands to accommodate notions of class, solidarity and privilege – in what is now a timeless snapshot of a rapidly evolving society.

Alternately bleak and sunny, realistic and effortlessly cool, suffused with the joys of girlhood yet clear-eyed about the uneasy transition into adulthood, Take Care of My Cat offers a tender and multi-faceted portrait of young women at the turn of the new millennium. And yes, there is a cat.

"A group of young women in South Korea, high-school contemporaries, struggle to maintain the intimacy and joy of their teenage friendship in this likeable, bittersweet comedy of manners.” - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

"A Korean classic of the pre K-pop explosion, flip-phone era returns to theaters as subtle, sweet and soulful as ever." - Roger Moore, Roger's Movie Nation

"A patient, delicately told story in the vein of Edward Yang... a coming-of-age favorite." - Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire

Winner: Best New Director - Korean Film Awards, 2002

Tickets $12 ($11.40 at the door if available)