Abortion was fully legalized in South Korea four years ago, but for numerous reasons obtaining one still presents a considerable hurdle for the teenage protagonists in “ En Route To .” Yoo Jaein’s auspicious debut feature, her graduation project at the Academy of Film Arts after several well-received shorts, is largely propelled by that logistical crisis. Yet it’s far from a one-issue film, taking an assured, unpredictable path through seriocomic coming-of-age territory that deftly touches on numerous topics, and by its close has added up to an impressively ambitious narrative journey.

We first meet Yun-ji (Sim Su-bin) as she’s sneaking back into a girls’ high school dormitory at night, though with her furtive, deer-in-the-headlights demeanor, she hardly seems the type to be hiding some

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