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).
SYNOPSIS
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.
Director
Hirokazu Kore-eda
WITH
Song Kang Ho, Gang Dong Won, Doona Bae, Lee Ji Eun, Lee Joo Young
Run Time
2 hours, 9 minutes
Released
December 26, 2022
Distributed by
Neon
HEARING AND VISUAL ASSISTANCE
Assisted Listening
Subtitles / Open Captions
Country
South Korea
SUBTITLES
Korean with English Subtitles
RATED R
for Language
SHOWINGS
JAN 13 | FRI
5:35, 8:15 p.m.
JAN 14 | SAT
12:15, 2:55, 5:35, 8:15 p.m.
JAN 15 | SUN
5:35, 8:15 p.m.
JAN 16 | MON
5:35, 8:15 p.m.
JAN 17 | TUE
5:35, 8:15 p.m.
JAN 18 | WED
CANCELLED
JAN 19 | THU
5:35, 8:15 p.m.
JAN 20 | FRI
5:35, 8:15 p.m.
JAN 21 | FRI
12:15, 2:55, 5:35, 8:15 p.m.
JAN 22 | FRI
12:15, 2:55, 5:35, 8:15 p.m.
JAN 23 | FRI
5:35, 8:15 p.m.
JAN 24 | FRI
5:35, 8:15 p.m.
JAN 25 | FRI
5:35, 8:15 p.m.
JAN 26 | FRI
5:35, 8:15 p.m.
Reviews
“By Kore-eda’s gentle standards, Broker is a more suspenseful, plot-driven affair than usual, but the enormity of his compassion and melancholy air remain undiminished.“
“The execution of this premise is, somehow, miraculous in its sensitivity, asking questions about issues of ethics, of choice, of money, and murder, and family, and how to find love in all this sorry mess.”
“Kore-eda is surprisingly generous toward his characters, nearly all of whom are breaking the law, but whose fundamental decency is brought out when dealing with others in need.”