We present the trailer for Monster, the new film by Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda in competition at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival
Winner of the Palme d’Or in 2018 for A Family Affair and the Jury Prize in 2013 for Like Father, Like Son, the Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda is back in Competition at Cannes 2023 for the seventh time with the film Monster (Kaibutsu), a thriller about the relationship between a mother, her young son and the latter’s teacher. This new project has given the opportunity to Hirokazu Kore-eda to collaborate with the legendary composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, who passed away in March 2023, who created the music for the film of which we present the trailer today.
The plot and the trailer of Monster, in competition at the Cannes Film Festival 2023
Minato (Soya Kurokawa) is a young boy who exhibits increasingly worrying behavior both at school and at home. His mother, Saori (Sakura Ando), decides to discuss it with the teaching staff of the institute. It soon becomes apparent that his teacher, Hori (Eita Nagayama), is the source of all problems. But as the mystery unravels, the truth turns out to be more complex than expected.
Il cast di Monster è completeato da Hinata Hiiragi, Mitsuki Takahata, Akihiro Kakuta, Shidô Nakamura, Yûko Tanaka. At the screenplay instead we find Yuji Sakamoto (We Made a Beautiful Bouquet), while the photography is by Ryoto Kondo (Shoplifters). The reactions to the preview of the film have revealed that we are dealing with the best Kore-eda, capable of disregarding the obvious and the predetermined to proceed with a more humane cinema. All this from a director who in the past has already seen as central to his cinema theme of personal and family ties in particular and that in his films he has also dealt with the themes of memory and ofmourning processing. Will you see this movie? Let us know in the comments!
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