From Hirokazu Kore-eda, master of such bittersweet films as ‘Shoplifters’ comes a knotty and funny tale of black market adoption. A gentle, touching and satisfying cinematic experience.
New mothers can leave unwanted babies in a ‘baby box’ at a church. Don-soo is able to pinch the babies before they are taken in and put them up for adoption – for a fee that is. Their operation gets complicated when one baby box drop-off is observed by two police detectives and the mother in question has a change of heart. Cue a romantic road movie, as the two crooks, the mother, the cute baby boy and an adorably mischievous stowaway squeeze into a beat-up van, and set off in search of the child's ideal adoptive parents. (Subtitles)
South Korea/Japan 2022 Hirokazu Koreeda 129m
