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Approved for Adoption
Directed by
Laurent Boileau
,
Cathy Ming-Jung
Not Rated
2012
70m
Documentary
,
Animation
,
and more
7.3
100%
78%
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Comic-book artist Jung returns to Seoul for the first time since he was abandoned at the age of 5.
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Cast of Approved for Adoption
William Coryn
Jung (voice)
Christelle Cornil
La mère (voice)
Jean-Luc Couchard
Le père (voice)
Arthur Dubois
Jung (8 ans) (voice)
David Macaluso
Jung (17 ans) (voice)
Cathy Ming-Jung
Self / Director
Laurent Boileau
Director / Writer
Thomas Schmitt
Producer
Jongho Yi
Producer
Approved for Adoption Ratings & Reviews
Oregonian
Jamie S. Rich
The anecdotes Jung shares ache with honesty, effectively relating how he eventually reconciled his lack of a past with the promising future his new family offered him.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
This 2012 feature is melancholy for a movie about childhood (probably too much so to appeal to children), but the intimate storytelling is appealing all the same.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
"Approved for Adoption" is tough and tender, a rich resource for anyone who has been adopted, and anyone who plans to adopt.
Los Angeles Times
Sheri Linden
The archival clips are eye-opening, and the animation, with its lovely subdued palette, is alive with the pains, joys and rascal spirit of childhood.
New York Times
Nicolas Rapold
The movie is not always well unified and sequenced, but that seems to reflect Mr. Henin's ambivalence over a past that's like a book he is at once rereading and rewriting.
Film Journal International
David Noh
Using a motley mix of often charming animation and live action which includes actual home footage of Jung as a child, as well as the present time...Approved for Adoption strives for a narrative and emotional complexity it sometimes achieves.
Village Voice
Daphne Howland
Watching the animated memoir Approved for Adoption can stir a serenity like skipping stones on water for a delightfully long time.
Variety
Jay Weissberg
It's impossible not to be charmed on some level by Jung Henin and Laurent Boileau's Approved for Adoption, though it's best not to ask for too much.
Film Comment Magazine
Robert Koehler
The hand-drawn animation here emphasizes the directness of the hand forming the image on paper, and the film becomes the ultimate expression of what started as the mere scribblings of little boy trying to find his place in the world.
The Hollywood Reporter
Neil Young
Animated semi-documentary takes a wry backward glance at an unorthodox childhood with sometimes affecting results.
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