Broker (Beurokeo)
10.45am Sunday 23rd April 2023
Five years after winning the Palme d’Or for Shoplifters, Academy award nominated filmmaker Kore-eda Hirokazu returns with big-hearted drama, BROKER, starring Cannes Best actor winner Song Kang Ho (Parasite). BROKER is the Japanese filmmaker’s first all-Korean feature and a rare crowd-pleasing, high-concept genre film with a stand-out performance from Song Kang Ho.
The film follows two brokers (Song Kang-ho and Gang Dong-won), 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 (K-pop star Ji-eun Lee), 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. Wryly funny and compassionate, BROKER ponders the ethics of adoption with nuanced and delicate character studies. DIRECTOR: Hirokazu Koreeda
WRITER: Hirokazu Koreeda CAST: Doona Bae, Kang-ho Song, Joo-Young Lee, Dong-won Gang, Ji-eun Lee DURATION: 129 min RATING: M GENRE: Drama LANGUAGE: Korean with English subtitles |
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