SHOPLIFTERS
When? Sunday 28th November, 7:30PM
Where? Online via Virtual Screening Room.
How? Once you've paid what you want for your festival pass, you'll need to let us know you'd like the code to this film. We'll tell you exactly how once you've got your pass. Log on at the time of the film, or a bit before to get chatting with the rest of the audience and to make sure everything's working, sit back and enjoy your cinema from home!
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Tolstoy got it wrong and Shoplifters gets it right. All happy families are not the same. Hirokazu Kore-eda’s enchanting, subversive masterpiece takes on family values and bourgeois pieties through a Japanese crime family that is not what it seems.
In the past, Kore-eda’s delicacy has at times enervated his movies. Here, though, the family’s toughness, thieving and secrets, its poverty and desperation, work like ballast on his sensibilities. In their grubby imperfections, Kore-eda finds a perfect story about being human.
What's it about?
A Japanese drama about a non-biological family who, unable to survive on their low-income jobs, turn to shoplifting as a way to survive. When they take in a young girl who appears to have been abandoned their lives start to change.
A heart breaking and empathetic look at the lives of the most disadvantaged people in society. A look at what is means to be a family – is our family the one we are born to or the one we chose?
Ranked 15 in The Guardian’s list of The 100 best films of the 21st century.
The details
Rating: 15
Runtime: 2 hours
Stars: Lily Franky and Sakura Ando
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda