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. (Dir. by Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2022, South Korea, in Korean with English subtitles, 129 mins., Rated R)