Things are starting to shape up when it comes to the Best International Film Oscar race.
Japan has decided to korosu Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Broker” and instead submit the Cannes-hailed “Plan 75” as its selection for the International Film category. Solid decision as it’s an absolutely fascinating sci-fi movie about aging.
If any of you had Broker’s Song Kang-Ho as a Best Actor contender, please, take him off your predictions. The film just isn’t any good and its 73 MC score a tad too generous.
I panned the movie at Cannes this past May, writing:
“Kore-eda still can’t solve the implausibilities that occur in his screenplay, the all-too-neat twists and turns that lead to a cozy finale, and, not to mention, the saccharine-inducing taste that is left in your mouth in its coda.”
So far, there have been twelve countries that have submitted their picks to academy:
Decision to Leave (South Korea)
The Quiet Girl (Ireland)
A Piece of Sky (Switzerland)
EO (Poland)
Unseen (Ecuador)
Eternal Spring (Canada)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany)
The Employer and the Employee (Uruguay)
Goddamned Asura (Taiwan)
Plan 75 (Japan)
January (Latvia)
Birthday Boy (Panama Boy)