![]() They get by in a crowded, ramshackle tenement and the two kids are busy picking up the techniques of petty shoplifting from the adults. The adults scrape by with low-security, low-paid jobs, the grandma has a small pension income, and the kids are vagabonds. "Shoplifters" follows the lives of a makeshift "family" living in the underside of an unnamed Japanese city (the particular place isn't important). Stylistically, for other recent movies it's close to "Roma" and also the American indie film "Leave No Trace" as bittersweet, unhurried explorations of quite real human beings working hard to survive. ![]() My wife and I are just back from seeing it at our local art-cinema theater and we liked it very much. It really belongs on a different scale entirely. I'm putting down 8/10 for a "rating", but basically I have no idea how to put a movie like this numerically in comparison with just about any Hollywood effort.
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