Family Portraits in the Films of Hirokazu Kore-eda Liz Gorny November 21, 2018 Analysis, Features, Spotlight With Shoplifters, Hirokazu Kore-eda tackles his most complex family unit to date: an impoverished, patchwork household who are biologically unrelated. Only occasionally featuring shoplifting, the film's title...
Mustang – Review Rachel Brook May 28, 2016 Reviews Mustang is impeccably structured. Nothing is gratuitous; each moment is conceived as part of the whole and contributes to the increasingly haunting narrative. Seemingly throwaway occurrences and lines become...
Our Little Sister – Review Andrew Daley April 17, 2016 Reviews Koreeda follows in the steps of Western directors such as Ken Loach and Andrea Arnold with Our Little Sister, embracing the social realism genre with three Japanese sisters in this heartwarming insight into...