We’ve had massive audiences this season and have had to turn people away.
Anticipating huge interest in the two upcoming films that have been nominated for
the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film [among other awards]
and to avoid further disappointment, we have added screenings for these films:
Shoplifters [Japan], Thursday 7 March at 5:45pm and 8pm.
Box office for first screening opens at 5:15pm.
Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes 2018. A drama of rare complexity and quality about the forces holding a struggling family together, it reveals a Japan rarely seen.
A masterpiece – The Irish Times ★★★★★
On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by fierce loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence and test their quietly radical belief that it is love—not blood—that defines a family.
A film by Kore-Eda Hirokazu, the director of Still Walking, Like Father, Like Son and Nobody Knows.
A film of rare depth and quality that explores the meaning of family, and suggests that real parenthood is not given, but earned. – The Guardian ★★★★★
Kore-eda’s great subject is the contemporary family, a topic that gives him an immensity of themes, including loss, love, class, alienation in the modern world…a perfect story about being human. – The New York Times
Japan, 2017 | Language: Japanese | 121 minutes | Cert: 15A
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Cast: Kirin Kiki, Lily Franky, Moemi Katayama
