France, Japon, États-Unis : regard critique sur la critique autour d’Une Affaire de famille de Koreeda Hirokazu
For the first time in almost twenty years, a Japanese filmmaker was awarded the Palme d’Or in 2018. Following the Cannes Festival, Koreeda Hirokazu and his Shoplifters were met with undisputable critical success all over the world, many journalists considering it was a masterpiece. Although the prof...
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Association Française des Enseignants et Chercheurs en Cinéma et Audiovisuel
2022-03-01
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| Series: | Mise au Point |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/map/5868 |
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| Summary: | For the first time in almost twenty years, a Japanese filmmaker was awarded the Palme d’Or in 2018. Following the Cannes Festival, Koreeda Hirokazu and his Shoplifters were met with undisputable critical success all over the world, many journalists considering it was a masterpiece. Although the professional critics unanimously celebrated the film, the modalities of reception happen to show significant disparities, implying that the reasoning behind the conclusion could be conditioned by divergent criteria. This article will review pieces published in three countries – France, the United States and Japan – both during the festival and upon the film theatrical release later that year, in order to study the analytical process and discourse of professional critics, while examining both the differences and similarities. Our research aims at studying the evaluation criteria that frame the rationale, regardless of its conclusion which can be the same: Shoplifters is a masterpiece, but what are the “whys”? |
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| ISSN: | 2261-9623 |