The Dryden will screen Manbiki kazoku (Shoplifters, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan 2018, 121 min., DCP, Japanese w/subtitles).

Winner of the 2018 Palme d'Or in Cannes and Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Hirokazu Kore-eda's latest film follows a family on the margins, whose members live day-to-day off a pension or as a day laborer, sex worker, or part-time laundress. The father and son supplement their meals by a coordinated shoplifting scheme that they reason doesn't hurt anyone, because the food doesn't belong to anyone yet. Still, when they find a young girl locked out on her porch on a cold winter's night, they find enough room in their hearts and home to warm her and feed her. When they try to return her, they find out that the girl is unwanted and take her in permanently. Months later, when news of the missing girl is televised, the family must decide what is most important to them. Questioning the definition of family and the difference between morality and justice, Kore-eda's film delivers the best qualities of his previous work.

[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2019-Mar-11]