He doesn't have many eyebrows.
But otherwise, he's cute.
A young prostitute deposits her newborn baby in front of a "baby box" where an organization collects abandoned infants.
It is easy to guess what a film by the Dardennes would have produced on such a subject (they have more or less already done it).
Here, the opposite applies.
Hirokazu Kore-eda has accuracy and fantasy.
He is aware that life, however dramatic it may be, contains its moments of weightlessness and joy.
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The employees of a dry cleaner pick up the toddler, pamper him, read the message that the mother has scribbled before disappearing.
The store serves as a cover for child trafficking.
The case is settled in a good mood.
It's about finding an adoptive family.
This has a price.
The mother returns, regrets her gesture.
The way to do otherwise?
But she is unable to take care of the little one.
His age, his profession, everything else.
She sympathizes with the boss hitched to his sewing machine (Song Kang-ho…
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