BROKER

February 10, 2023 - February 12, 2023

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Fri, Feb 10 at at 7:30 • Sat and Sun, Feb 11 and 12 at 4:30 and 7:30 • IU Radio & Television Theater • Purchase Tickets

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.

Japan • 129 min • subtitled

Kore-eda’s nonjudgmental approach to all his films is what makes him such an enticing auteur, and with Broker he brings what he excels at to a new destination with an all-star South Korean cast that really understands his material and delicate subtleties. – The Austin Chronicle

When it all comes together it proves to be yet another poetic and patient cinematic reflection on the families we build for ourselves from one of the best observers of humanity to ever do it. – Collider

CRITIC’S PICK! – The New York Times

Every baby deserves to be loved and taken care of, but so does every adult. Broker does an impressive job of articulating how these two truths are inextricably intertwined. – Paste

Broker keeps on getting funnier and knottier as secret motives are revealed, sympathies shift, mysteries deepen and dangers multiply. – BBC

Details

Start:: February 10, 2023
End:: February 12, 2023
Event Category:: Film Series