Screening February 5, 2023 at 3:30pm and 6:30pm
MONSTER
2023 Japan 2hr 6minutes
Drama Not Rated
In Japanese with English subtitles
NYTImes Critic’s Pick
After a mother (Ando Sakura) discovers that a teacher’s bullying is behind her young son’s sudden strange behavior, she storms into his school demanding an explanation. Continually left without satisfactory answers—and with an increasingly distressed child—she furiously escalates her concerns to the school board and the media. But as the story unfolds through the multilayered perspectives of mother, teacher, and child, the real truth gradually emerges—and proves much more complex than anyone could have expected.
A film by KORE-EDA Hirokazu
Shoplifters (2018) Like Father, Like Son (2013), Nobody Knows (2004)
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Our Film Series screens (usually) two films each month, on the first and third Mondays at 3:30pm and 6:30pm at Plaza Cinemas in downtown Oxnard.
We will continue our mission of providing the best of world cinema to the Oxnard and Ventura County community and supporting local filmmakers.
We’d like to thank the Port of Hueneme for becoming a 2023-24 Annual Sponsor of the Oxnard Film Society.
Thanks and stay safe. George J. Sandoval, Executive Director