Opens July 17

Metrograph In Theater

Exclusive One-Week NY Theatrical Engagement

 

TAKE CARE OF MY CAT

 

25th Anniversary Re-Release for Jeong Jae-eun’s Cult Korean Classic 2001 Debut, a Charming Coming-of-Age Drama About Five Friends Facing The Future

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Featuring an Enchanting Ensemble Cast and Early, Starmaking Performances by Bae Doona (LINDA LINDA LINDA) and Lee Yo-won (ATTACK THE GAS STATION)

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Festivals

2002 Toronto International Film Festival

2002 International Film Festival Rotterdam

2002 New Directors/New Films

 

112 mins / South Korea / 2001 / Korean, with English subtitles

 

 

 

“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

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“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

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“One of the best movies I’ve seen recently about the joys and travails of young working women... The problems and characters it reveals are universal and involving, and the film itself–and its delightful cast–are so breezy, pretty and gifted, they really won my heart.”

- Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune

 

Beginning Friday, July 17, Take Care of My Cat, Jeong Jae-eun's beloved, multi-award-winning, and previously rarely screened coming-of-age film, opens for an exclusive one-week NY theatrical engagement at Metrograph In Theater.

 

Returning to cinemas this year, celebrating its 25th anniversary re-release, the debut feature from Jeong, one of a handful of female directors to break into the South Korean film industry, focuses on five young women, recent high school graduates living in the industrial port city of Incheon and facing a precarious future together, in addition to having to handle the practical exigencies of caring for the feline that they’ve communally adopted. Bae Doona, whose Tae-hee makes ends meet with shifts at her family’s sauna and occasional work as a typist for a cerebral palsy-afflicted poet, anchors an exceedingly fine ensemble cast in Jeong’s moving drama of fraying friendships and economic uncertainty, also one of the first films to acknowledge the increasingly central role of text messaging in 21st-century communication and find a way to integrate this new, faceless form of “keeping in touch” into a filmed narrative. A Kani Releasing release.

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​Accompanying the run of Take Care of My Cat, Metrograph presents the series Among Friends, a program of films centered on the dynamics of female friendships. Titles include 3 Women, Le amiche, Amoeba, Les Bonnes Femmes, Girlhood, Happy Hour, Linda Linda Linda, and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.

 

 

 

ABOUT DIRECTOR/CO-DIRECTOR JEONG JAE-EUN​

Jeong Jae-eun (b. 1969) is a graduate of the Korea National University of Arts. Her feature debut, Take Care of My Cat (2001), received acclaim around the world, screening at festivals in Busan, Hong Kong, New York, Rotterdam, and Berlin. It has since garnered a strong cult following. Two fiction features followed: The Aggressives (2005) and Butterfly Sleep (2017). Jeong is also an accomplished documentary filmmaker, exploring the topic of architecture in the trilogy Talking Architect (2012), City: Hall (2013), and Ecology in Concrete (2017). She reunited with her love for cats in Cat’s Apartment (2020) and, most recently, contributed to KBS's archival documentary series Modern Korea with The Age of Beasts (2021), on the representation of women and gender discrimination in South Korean media.