Jeong Jae-eun pens and directs a very tender film, which is presented as an entry in the coming-of-age category, but actually uses the five girls to communicate her sociopolitical messages. The film however, functions excellently in both levels

| Jan 6, 2019

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 23, 2005

Jeong's women often interact via cell phone messaging, and one of the film's primary themes arises in the way contemporary relationships exist through wireless communication.

| Dec 1, 2004

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 20, 2004

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 28, 2003

["Take Care of My Cat"] is an honestly nice little film that takes us on an examination of young adult life in urban South Korea through the hearts and minds of the five principals.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 20, 2003

The film engages with the divergent paths taken, linked by childhood friendship and a mewling kitten, but a third act event is presented so abruptly it confuses the viewer until it rebounds somewhat with a satisfying closure.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 16, 2003

The film wasn't preachy, but it was feminism by the book.

| Original Score: C | Mar 12, 2003

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 16, 2003

The level of maturity displayed by this 33-year-old first-time feature director is astonishing, considering her inexperience and her subject matter.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 17, 2002

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 13, 2002

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

| Dec 13, 2002

Jeong sensitively gives her film an underlying sadness as the young women cope with the changes in their lives

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 13, 2002

The year 2002 has conjured up more coming-of-age stories than seem possible, but Take Care of My Cat emerges as the very best of them.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 10, 2002

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

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 6, 2002

Take Care of My Cat offers a refreshingly different slice of Asian cinema.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 3, 2002

In this vivid, emotionally complex ensemble piece, Korean writer-director Jeong Jae-eun portrays this extraordinary turning point in every woman's life.

| Oct 22, 2002

The episodic film makes valid points about the depersonalization of modern life. But the characters tend to be cliches whose lives are never fully explored.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 18, 2002