Tag: Sakura Ando
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‘Monster’ Trailer: Hirokazu Kore-eda Returns To Cannes With A Film About A Mother’s Search For Truth
Can you have a Cannes Film Festival without Hirokazu Kore-eda? Fortunately, my favorite director also works extremely fast, and so we don’t have to experience such a thing. He has become a staple of the festival, with films such as Like Father Like Son, After the Storm, Our Little Sister, Palme d’Or winner Shoplifters, and…
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Review: Hirokazu Koreeda’s ‘Shoplifters’, An Empathetic And Heartwarming Look At A Family Of Thieves
*NOTE: This is an edited reprint of my review from the Middleburg Film Festival. Shoplifters is in theaters now.* After an unusual detour with legal thriller The Third Murder, Japanese auteur Hirokazu Koreeda returns to his domestic drama comfort zone with Shoplifters, winner of this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes. The acclaimed film touches on…
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Middleburg Review: Hirokazu Koreeda’s ‘Shoplifters’, An Empathetic And Heartwarming Look At A Family Of Thieves
After an unusual detour with legal thriller The Third Murder, Japanese auteur Hirokazu Koreeda returns to his domestic drama comfort zone with Shoplifters, winner of this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes. The acclaimed film touches on a topic that has been a touchstone of most of his finest works, the idea that family is more…