Broker
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.
Critic Reviews:
- " Like a song worming its way into your consciousness in the rainy night air, Kore-eda offers us a film about all the ways we can learn the transformative possibilities of forgiveness, including from the movies. " – Kathryn Reklis (The Christian Century)
- " This is vintage Kore-eda, and it's warm, wise, wonderful, canny and complex. " – Sarah Ward (Concrete Playground)
- " The film is also suffused with humour as the members of this odd family gradually become closer. There are some lovely, delicately handled scenes, the type of scene at which this director is adept. " – David Stratton (The Australian)
