Dir: Hirokazu Kore-Eda, Japan, 2013, 120 mins, Language Japanese.
Starring: Masaharu Fukuyama, Machiko Ono, Yoko Maki, Lily Franky.
Like Father Like Son follows the story of two couples who, when their children are staring elementary school, discover that the children were switched shortly after their birth. Contact is made and they face up to an impossible moral quandary; do they hold on to the boys they have nurtured or switch the children and attempt to reboot family life? This film is not always subtle. Indeed there is nothing in the structure or tone to dispel fears of a lachrymose Hollywood remake. But it manages to be properly sad in a way that only Japanese film-makers manage.
€7/€5/€3
8pm
