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.
"One of the year’s most delightful films."
- BBC
"A crowd-pleaser and a gentle joy."
- TIME OUT
"Lovingly crafted in every department, the film benefits from the fluid rhythms of Kore-eda’s editing, echoed in a melodic score by Jung Jae-il that spans from acoustic to orchestral."
- HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Kore-eda allows his emotion to build through his characters, and his ensemble gets that."
- ROGEREBERT.COM
Thursday 30th March
129 min
M
Doona Bae, Kang-ho Song, Joo-Young Lee, Dong-won Gang, Ji-eun Lee
Hirokazu Koreeda
Drama
Korean with English subtitles
Pentridge Cinema, Palace Balwyn, Palace Cinema Como, Palace Brighton Bay, Palace Westgarth, The Kino, Palace Norton Street, Palace Central, Palace Verona, Palace Byron Bay, Palace James St, Palace Barracks, Palace Electric Cinema, Palace Raine Square
