This article is part of our Milwaukee Film Festival daily preview series. The series is brought to you by Associated Bank. Shoplifters (Manbiki Kazoku) Sunday, October 28 @ 4 p.m. Oriental Theatre East
Japan’s official Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film has already won a Palme d’Or at Cannes. Shoplifters is about a crime family—but not the sort usually featured in film. In director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s story, the family is a multi-generational clan whose members support themselves by shoplifting and pooling their “earnings.” But they also have hearts of gold—taking in a homeless 6-year-old girl with signs of having been abused whom they find shivering in the streets on a cold night. Handled with the light fingers of a professional, Shoplifters is described by the Los Angeles Times as “a work of such emotional delicacy and formal modesty that you’re barely prepared when the full force of what it’s doing suddenly knocks you sideways.”
Also screened at 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 1, Avalon Theater.
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