Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022

The Korean drama "Broker" begins like a noir. A young woman walks slowly in the pouring rain in the middle of the night in Busan, her flimsy hood doing little to keep her dry. She looks haunted but determined and soon we see her destination: A church with a collection receptacle labeled "Baby...

Saturday, May. 28, 2022

"Shoplifters" director Hirokazu Kore-eda returns to the Cannes Film Festival with "Broker," another tale of misfits from society's margins.

This time, the film centers on the use of a "baby box," a controversial method of anonymously dropping off newborns to be cared for by others used in...

Wednesday, Apr. 6, 2022

A #MeToo crisis is raging in the Japanese film industry.

A petition signed by top names, including Cannes' Palme d'Or-winning Hirokazu Kore-eda, Cannes Jury Prize winner Koji Fukada and "Under the Sky" director Miwa Nishikawa, expresses outrage over sexual abuse.

"These acts are...

Saturday, Jul. 4, 2020

Catherine Deneuve plays an icon of French cinema in "The Truth." She even chose her own middle name, Fabienne, for her character who says things like, "I'd rather have been a bad friend and a bad mother and a great actress."

But don't go looking for some essential truths, or gossip, about...

Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018

The idea of family as a simple, straightforward concept is challenged by the provocative but oddly touching "Shoplifters," the Palme d'Or winning film from Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda.

Kore-eda puts his lens on a poor, multi-generational family, living on the seeming brink of...

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