In 2018, Hirokazu Kore-eda won the Palme d'Or at Cannes with
A Family Affair,
a social fable about a family of small-time crooks who took in an abused little girl.
For his first shoot in Korea, the Japanese director recounts the family we choose in
Les Bonnes Étoiles.
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The story is that of a baby around which various characters gravitate: his mother who abandoned him in a "baby box", two men who illegally recovered him to sell him, and two female cops who track traffickers. of children.
"Every life has its place"
“Seeing abandoned children wondering about the legitimacy of their coming into the world, I felt the pressing need to make a film that could provide them with an answer.
I clearly wanted to signify that every birth counts, that every life has its place”, explains the filmmaker whose characters, each in their own way, work for the good of the child.
In video,
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, the trailer
At Kore-eda, appearances are indeed deceiving: the thugs have a big heart, the cops are not obtuse, and maternal love, if not innate, is acquired.
Tender and moving,
Les Bonnes Étoiles
earned Song Kang-ho, a South Korean actor revealed to the general public by
Parasite,
the prize for best actor at the Cannes Film Festival.
The Good Stars,
by Hirokazu Kore-eda, with Song Kang-ho, Dong-won Gang, Bae Doona…