Shoplifters

Just as it lulls you, it also devastates.

Master director Hirokazu Kore-eda, whose work won the Palm d’Or at Cannes this year, doesn’t pour on the emotion. He doesn’t need to – his film, even as it enchants, is quietly devastating.

Shoplifters is compassionate, socially conscious filmmaking with a piercing intelligence that is pure Kore-eda. This is a film that steals in and snatches your heart.

This small film is a thoughtful addition to his parables about happy and unhappy families (Nobody Knows, After the Storm), studded with memorable characters and believable performances that quietly lead the viewer to reflect on societal values.

In Shoplifters, Kore-eda dramatizes the insidious and relativistic ordinariness of poverty.

The spirits of the old masters pervade this disquieting but deeply moving drama. But Kore-eda stands alone as the chronicler of family life in a country facing an identity crisis.

By drawing our empathy for such morally dubious and potentially damaging characters, Shoplifters remains a real heartbreaker, the kind of which only this director seems capable.

SUPERB! This film leads you down a road and then promptly takes a turn, giving you a totally different perspective. So well acted, engaging and heartwarming from the outset. I was blown away. Highly recommended.

Una película interesante que puede llegar a conmover o incluso a impactar a algunos.

I am impressed by the nonchalant proceedings of and the terrific performances that make up Shoplifters, an emotional drama about an artificial family of crooks, who have a lot of skeletons in their cupboard and which drop out one by one through the plotline, making it a heart-warming experience for me, occasionally also helping highlight the hard truths of life, but I was not enthralled by the film as everyone else claims to have. TN. (Watched and reviewed at the 3rd Japanese Film Festival of India in Mumbai.)

"When you love someone, this is what you do." . ( #60/100 ) . El propósito de Shoplifters es importante, complejo y con un valor reflexivo enorme, sin embargo, su valor final está en el dilema moral (que solo propone) y no en la experiencia narrativa y cultural que trata de integrar a ese dilema. Esta es una familia que puede ayudar y adoptar a una niña con quien solo ganan dilemas morales y económicos. Con 2 horas de duración, Shoplifters le dedica 3/4 del tiempo a explorar esos dilemas y exponer una gran gama de emociones personales. Al principio es fácil dejare llevar por esa observación y admirar los detalles de un espacio oprimido en una cultura específica, pero la falta de tensión y la gran carga de sensibilidad provoca que la #película se vuelva pesada y menos conmovedora, aun cuando visualmente intriga el hecho de que puede agregar textura, temperatura y tamaño a la historia. Es hasta el último tercio cuando se presentan una serie de enigmas que no se introducen previamente de forma adecuada. A partir de ahí, la actuación se eleva minimamente para cooperar con un suspenso con poco sustento, pero que tiene éxito en plantear un dilema moral que, mientras más inocente sea el espectador del propósito, menos atención ganará. - The porpoise of "Shoplifters" it's important, complex and with a big reflective value, however, its final value is in its moral dilemma (which only proposes) and not in the narrative and cultural experience that tries to incorporate in that dilemma. This is a family that can help and adopt a little girl who only brings economic and moral dilemmas. With 2 hours of duration, Shoplifters dedicates 3/4 of its time to explore those dilemmas and expose a wide range of personal emotions. At the beginning its easy to let go by that observation and admire the details of a repress space in a specific culture, but the lack of tension and the big deal of sensibility provokes that the #movie becomes heavy and each time less moving, even when visually intrigues the fact that it can add texture, temperature, and size to the story. It's until the last third when a series of enigmas are presented without being introduced properly. From there, the acting elevates minimally to cooperate with a suspense with little sustain, but it achieves to stipulate a moral dilemma that, while more innocent the spectator is of the porpoise, less attention it will have.

nothing special about the movie and i feel like I have watched this story many time before and this one doesn't add anything new, I also didn't like the acting at all, I don't know why asian actros and actress tend to be over reacting to the point I cringe a bit