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Song Kang-Ho
Star of Korean cinema, Song Kang-ho, awarded this Saturday at Cannes, achieved International fame thanks to “Parasite”, Palme d’Or 2019 and Oscar for best film, for a role as the patriarch of a family of tricksters. os, Song cross now a new level. This Saturday, excited to collect the award for best performance for his role in “Broker”, by the Japanese Hirokazu Kore-Eda, he limited himself to to express his gratitude to her family, who was present in the room.
Song & nbsp;plays in “Broker” a man in debt who discovers a baby abandoned and volunteers to find him a new family in exchange for money.
He then embarks on a journey between the port city of Busan and Seoul.
It is his first collaboration with Hirokazu Kore-Eda, a great analyst of the family and the relationships between parents and children. that a “meticulous and calculated” leadership was expected. of Kore-eda, in part because of his preconceived ideas about Japanese artists.
& quot;But he really respected us. and made us discover emotions in a totally free way”, he explained.
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“Song Kang-ho is a very expressive actor, be it to express tension, comedy or confusion" ;, Brian Hu, a film professor at the University of San Diego, recently told AFP.
“Broker” allows the actor to give free rein to his sensitivity.
“It is not the story, the theme or even the script that has motivated me, but the fact of working with him (Kore-Eda). I greatly love his cinema, for his humanity and for the love he gives to his characters”, he explained. the actor in an interview with Paris-Match.
In July of last year Song had already been to Cannes to be part of the jury, along with stars like Tahar Rahim or Spike Lee.
The actor was born in 1967 in Gimhae, and began his career in the theater. In 1996 he achieved & gué; a small role in the movie “The day a pig fell in to the well”, and from there started Take it off of him.
“Green Fish” arrives in 1997, and then worked with Kim Jee-woon (“The Quiet Family”) and another master of South Korean cinema, Park Chan-wook (“Joint Security Area”).
Before “Parasite” already achieved international notoriety and critical acclaim alongside filmmaker Bong Joon-ho for the action movie “Snowbreaker”; in 2013.