Hosted by Enoch Pratt Free Library

Virtual – Zoom

Film Fridays with Tom & Gillian provides a virtual community space facilitated by Enoch Pratt librarians to gather and discuss chosen films. All the titles we are showing will be available from Kanopy or Hoopla, which patrons can access using their Enoch Pratt library card.

Fractured Families: Today we discuss two films examining the complex nature of family relationships.

 

• STORIES WE TELL (2012)
  Actress-turned-director Sarah Polley’s film excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers. Stories We Tell was an Official Selection at Venice Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, and Toronto International Film Festival. Click here to watch the trailer.
• SHOPLIFTERS (2018)
  In Japanese with English subtitles
  Like Yasujiro Ozu, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s films are concerned primarily with family relationships and in Shoplifters he contemplates not only what makes a family but the place of the family in society as a whole. Shoplifters tells the story of a non-biological family of small-time crooks who take in a child they find on the streets and raise as their own, finding happiness and meaning despite a life of poverty. The film won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe award as Best Foreign Film. Click here to watch the trailer.