Expat Cinema : Evil Does Not Exist – Cinema Galeries

Expat Cinema : Evil Does Not Exist

Directed byRyusuke Hamaguchi

Expat Cinema : Evil Does Not Exist

Directed byRyusuke Hamaguchi
  • ORIGINAL LANGUAGE JP
  • SUBTITLES EN
  • COUNTRY Japon
  • Duration 106
  • Prices 9.50 €, 7.50 €, 6.50 €, 6.00 €
  • Moderator ticket Article 27, Arsène 50
  • Abonnement Carte 5 places Cinema Galeries, UGC Unlimited, Cineville Pass

Introducing

Jury Prize – Venice Film Festival

Best Film – BFI Londen Film Festival

Synopsis

Takumi and his daughter Hana live in the village of Mizubiki near Tokyo. Like the generations before them, they live a modest life in harmony with nature. When it is announced one day that there are plans to build a glamping site near Takumi's house with implications for their water supply, unrest arises among the residents. The arrival of the glamping will change the peaceful community and surrounding nature forever, and has severe implications for Takumi's life.

Introducing

Jury Prize – Venice Film Festival

Best Film – BFI Londen Film Festival

Synopsis

Takumi and his daughter Hana live in the village of Mizubiki near Tokyo. Like the generations before them, they live a modest life in harmony with nature. When it is announced one day that there are plans to build a glamping site near Takumi's house with implications for their water supply, unrest arises among the residents. The arrival of the glamping will change the peaceful community and surrounding nature forever, and has severe implications for Takumi's life.

Hamaguchi inverts our imagination of that idyllic rural life, contending that a tourist’s romanticization of “getting away from the city” might blind them from the realities of what that really means.
The Verge
Culminates in Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s most mysterious climax to date.
Empire
It is a gripping conclusion to a fraught study of a community besieged by the modern world and determined to resist it, whatever the cost.
The Telegraph