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After a stay in France for The Truth (2019), Kore-eda spent time in South Korea and recruited several local stars to continue digging into the same theme: a meditation on the family and conditions of filiation, a daydream on forging ties between people, explored through the escapade of two crooks and a mother with her baby, who all set out to sell the child. The theme of adoption and the dark context (child trafficking) hang heavy over this true family film whose plot jubilantly blends whodunit and road-movie. However, this is to celebrate more deeply what the cinema of Kore-eda softly strives to capture: the utopia of a reinvented family. AR