Cert 12A
November 14th 2024
Winner – Best Screenplay and Queer Palm, Cannes Film Festival 2023
Winner – Best director, Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2023
Nominee – Palme D’Or, Cannes Film Festival 2023
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Cast: Sakura Andō, Eita Nagayama, Sōya Kurokawa
Country: Japan Japanese (English subtitles) 127 minutes
UK release date: March 2024
When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a teacher is responsible, she storms into the school demanding to know what’s going on. But as the story unfolds through the eyes of mother, teacher and child, the truth gradually unfolds.
“Kore-eda offers a deliberately dense but ultimately hopeful examination of how to negotiate family dysfunction with intelligence and humanity.” Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
“Gently devastating in its compassion, Monster is a masterpiece of shifting perspectives that surprises to the end.” Rotten Tomatoes’ Critics’ Consensus
Film Club at the Roxy 