Still from Evil Does Not Exist (2023), by Ryusuke Hamaguchi.
Still from Evil Does Not Exist (2023), by Ryusuke Hamaguchi.
Evil Does Not Exist
2:30 pm–4:30 pm
Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Japan, 2023, 106 min.). Japanese with English subtitles.
The latest from Ryusuke Hamaguchi (director of 2022’s critical darling Drive My Car, winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2023) is a drama that plumbs tensions between the beauty of nature and humankind’s destructive urge to commodify that beauty. Deep in the forest of the small rural village Harasawa, single parent Takumi lives with his young daughter, Hana, and takes care of odd jobs for locals, chopping wood and hauling pristine well water. The overpowering serenity of this untouched land of mountains and lakes, where deer peacefully roam free, is about to be disrupted by the imminent arrival of the Tokyo company Playmode, which is ready to start construction on a glamping site for city tourists—a plan, Takumi and his neighbors discover, with dire consequences for the ecological health and cleanliness of their community.
Evil Does Not Exist won the Grand Jury Prize at the Berlin and Venice Film Festivals, and the Best Film Award at the BFI London Film Festival.
“Hypnotic.… This haunting stealth thriller about violations of nature is a work of undeniable power.… This is a movie that holds you tight in its grip right up to those jaw-dropping final moments.” —Hollywood Reporter
Wheelchair accessible
With English subtitles
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