MONSTER – March 14, 7:00PM @ Cinestudio

MONSTER

Screening Thursday, March 14, 2024, 7:00 PM @ Cinestudio

WINNER of the Queer Palm award and Best Screenplay award at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival!

After a mother (Ando Sakura) discovers that a teacher’s bullying is behind her young son’s sudden strange behavior, she storms into his school demanding an explanation. Continually left without satisfactory answers—and with an increasingly distressed child—she furiously escalates her concerns to the school board and the media. But as the story unfolds through the multilayered perspectives of mother, teacher, and child, the real truth gradually emerges—and proves much more complex than anyone could have expected.

Director Kore-eda Hirokazu | 2023 | USA | 126 minutes | Rated PG 13 | in Japanese with English subtitles

Cast: Ando Sakura, Nagayama Eita, Kurokawa Soya, Hiliragi Hinata

“Three unique perspectives guide and dramatically shift the serpentine narrative course of Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda’s exquisite movie.” – Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News

“One of the director’s finest, its thematic scope and emotional power growing with each new revelation.” – Nick Schager, The Daily Beast