Golden Globe Nominee “Shoplifters” Comes to Amherst Cinema
Director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Shoplifters,” his newest cinematic plunge into the
urban discomforts of contemporary Japan, arrives in Amherst Cinema after its
yearlong triumph in the international film festival circuit.
On the surface, Kore-eda’s little tale about a clan of petty thieves meets every
assumption regarding the artistic conservatism