Film
Broker (12A)
Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda, South Korea, 2022, 129 mins, subtitled. Cast. Song Kang-ho, Gang Dong-won, Bae Doona.
Broker is the outstanding new film from Hirokazu Kore-eda, the acclaimed director of Shoplifters. On a rainy night in Busan, So-young leaves her baby Woo-sung outside a ‘baby box’, a safe place set up in Korean churches for new mothers to leave unwanted infants. Instead, he’s picked up by Sang-hyun who runs an unofficial adoption brokerage and plans to find him a new home. So-young tracks down both Sang-hyun and his business partner Dong-soo and joins them, but as they search for Woo-sung’s new family, the unlikely group evolves into something of a family themselves – unaware they’re being tailed by two detectives. Heart-warming, funny and moving, this is a film of gentle humanity and great warmth.
Broker is the outstanding new film from Hirokazu Kore-eda, the acclaimed director of Shoplifters. On a rainy night in Busan, So-young leaves her baby Woo-sung outside a ‘baby box’, a safe place set up in Korean churches for new mothers to leave unwanted infants. Instead, he’s picked up by Sang-hyun who runs an unofficial adoption brokerage and plans to find him a new home. So-young tracks down both Sang-hyun and his business partner Dong-soo and joins them, but as they search for Woo-sung’s new family, the unlikely group evolves into something of a family themselves – unaware they’re being tailed by two detectives. Heart-warming, funny and moving, this is a film of gentle humanity and great warmth.
