‘Monster’
Manager: Hirokazu Koreeda
Artists: Soya Kurokawa, Hiiragi Hinata, Sakura Ando
Premiere: 29.09.2023
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Although a film is made every year and it is difficult to maintain this creative rhythm no matter how inspired one is (something active filmmakers such as Woody Allen, Steven Soderbergh, and François Ozon have suffered from at different times in their careers), Japanese Hirokazu Koreeda continues to maintain his type by seeking new ways to express himself rather than renewing himself thematically.. Last year, she shot ‘Broker’ in South Korea, and in 2019, she told a very French family story in ‘The Truth,’ starring Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche, including ‘Makanai: The Truth,’ a television series about geisha apprentices. He completed it. With ‘Maiko cook’ and ‘The Monster’ he delved into a story of bullying that was presented in a dramatically different way and built from three different perspectives on the same situation; somewhat in the style of his compatriot’s influential ‘Rashomon’. Akira Kurosawa.
Koreeda offers the audience a well-known but inspiring play. If the truth seems obvious at first, its nuances are many and nothing is as it seems.. The three versions of events (from the perspective of two children, the mother of a child, and the accused teacher) reveal contradictions, desires, and personal lies. Always an interesting way to touch reality, the filmmaker observes, combines three views and does not judge.