Shoplifters

Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda

2018 / 121min / DCP

Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, Kore-eda’s wise and deeply humane domestic drama centers on a makeshift family—men and women cast off by society, living off of petty theft and con jobs on the outskirts of Tokyo—whose routine is disturbed by the arrival in their midst of an abused young girl. Knowing that, in providing her a home, they would run the risk of alerting the authorities to their illegal activities, the “family”—an impeccable ensemble cast—risk their own dissolution, a process that Kore-eda details with acuity and infinite affection in this heart-rending film which has garnered comparisons to the works of Charles Dickens and Yasujirō Ozu

Part of Modern Families