Although the family is poor, barely making enough money to survive through petty crime, they seem to live happily together until an unforeseen incident reveals hidden secrets, testing the bonds that unite them…
(Japan, 121 min., rated R for some sexual content and nudity)
Winner of the top prize at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, this latest from director Hirokazu Kore-eda (“Our Little Sister”) investigates what exactly “family” means. “A lot of movies try to sell the sanctity or pathology of the family, sliding over complications that might get in the way of easy endings. In ‘Shoplifters,’ a beautifully felt family drama, the Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda dives into the mess with a story about a household on the ragged edge… Kore-eda finds a perfect story about being human.” – New York Times
$5.00 General Admission
2019/03/10 - 2019/03/10
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Discussion after the first screening of the day.
Douglass Theatre
355 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Macon, GA 31208