Shoplifters

shoplifters is the family you build when the one you were born into fails you completely none of what they do together is legal, all of it is more honest than most real families manage kore-eda keeps circling the same question — what actually makes a family, the paperwork or the person who feeds you anyway that fireworks scene, all of them packed in a tiny yard listening to what they can't even see, says more about belonging than the rest of the film needs to that final shot of the little girl on the balcony doesn't explain itself, it just lets the ache sit there i still don't know if i'd call what they did wrong