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THE TRUTH (La Vérité)

July 3, 2020 By Leave a Comment

THE TRUTH (La Vérité)

In Hirokazu Koreeda’s last film, the Oscar®-nominated SHOPLIFTERS, he incisively examined the ethics of capitalism, and its effects on one poverty-stricken, yet devoted, ragtag family ingeniously doing battle with a system designed to keep them down economically. In THE TRUTH, he moves the action from Tokyo to Paris to examine the ethics of veracity on… Read More »

Tagged With: Family, film-with-a-film, memoir, mother-daughter, Paris

SHOPLIFTERS (MANBIKI KAZOKU)

February 3, 2019 By Leave a Comment

SHOPLIFTERS (MANBIKI KAZOKU)

Palme d’Or winner SHOPLIFTERS is a radical deconstruction of family values in a world of dubious ethics. Set amid the throwaways of society, in this case Japan, it finds warmth and togetherness where we would least expect it, and from a family that is not so much scamming the system as they are a family… Read More »

Tagged With: family values, Japan, kidnapping, petty crime, shoplifting, underclass

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