Film - Shoplifters

When
25 Jan 2019
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location
The Park View Room 230 Park Ave. Worcester, MA 01609

Film - Shoplifters

Friday, January 25, 2019 from 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

The Park View Room 230 Park Ave.
Worcester, MA 01609

Somewhere in Tokyo, Osamu Shibata and his wife Nobuyo live in poverty. While Osamu receives occasional employment and Nobuyo has a low-paying job, the family relies in large part on the grandmother's pension. As he is shoplifting for groceries with his son, Shota, they discover Yuri, a homeless girl. Osamu takes her home, where the family observes evidence of abuse. Despite their strained finances, they informally adopt her. The film premiered on 13 May 2018 at the Cannes Film Festival, where it went on to win the Palme d'Or. The film was released in Japan on 8 June 2018 and was a critical and commercial success.

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