Parade of stars on the Croisette this Thursday, May 26. When climbing the stairs for the screening of the film broker, we could see a Marina Foïs particularly dressed in a metallic top, and with her new short haircut. Bella Hadid also made a remarkable arrival, followed by Ariane Séguillon, Jacques Weber and Gaspard Noé who also climbed the prestigious red steps, as did the president of this 75th edition, Vincent Lindon.
In competition at the 75th Cannes Film Festival, the film Broker – The Lucky Stars tackles a delicate subject unfortunately booming in Korea: baby boxes (baby boxes that allow you to abandon a child completely anonymously). Very touched by this phenomenon, director Hirokazu Kore-Eda – who already won the Palme d’Or in 2018 for the film A family matter – wished to highlight this growing problem in Asia in this new cinematographic work shot in South Korea.
“During the writing of the screenplay and my location scouting in Korea, I had the opportunity to interview children who had been abandoned in baby boxes. Seeing these children desperately questioning the legitimacy of their coming into the world, I felt the pressing need to make a film that could provide them with an answer..” confided with great emotion the Japanese director who notably produced the films The truth (2019), A family matter (2018), The Third Murder (2017), after the storm (2016), our little sister (2015), Like father, like son (2013) or even Nobody Knows (2004).
Shocked by this practice of abandonment, the director also added: “What film was I going to be able to offer to these children who fought fiercely against the inner and outer voices that hammered at them that they should not have been born? It is this question that has always been at the center of my work. Les Bonnes Etoiles is a film in which I wanted to look life squarely in the face and, by slipping into the skin of the characters, convey my own voice clearly. This film is therefore akin to both a prayer and a wish.“
The cinema release of Broker – The Good Stars is scheduled for December 7, 2022.