Saturday, March 2, 2019

Shoplifters

Hirokazu Koreeda's Shoplifters inhabits a world between the real and the romantic as it beautifully and elegantly unspools the webby tale of a cobbled-together family of thieves who mean no harm but certainly are up to no good until they rescue an abused and abandoned girl and attempt to school her in love and criminality.
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