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Winner: Best Actor (Song Kang-ho), 2022 Cannes Film Festival
“Every baby deserves to be loved and taken care of, but so does every adult. ‘Broker’ does an impressive job of articulating how these truths are inextricably intertwined.”
129 minutes. Rated R. Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda. In Korean with English subtitles.
Five years after winning the Palme d’Or for Shoplifters, Academy Award nominated filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda returns with Broker, starring Cannes Best Actor winner Song Kang Ho (Parasite). The film follows two brokers who sell orphaned infants, circumventing the bureaucracy of legal adoption, to affluent couples who can’t have children of their own. After an infant’s mother surprises the duo by returning to ensure her child finds a good home, the three embark on a journey to find the right couple, building an unlikely family of their own.