| FRIDAY, JULY 13, 2018 | THE STRAITS TIMES | happenings life D7 John Lui Film Correspondent and Yip Wai Yee Entertainment Correspondent Picks recommend Film SHOPLIFTERS (M18) 121 minutes/ Ideas explored in this winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s highest prize, the Palme d’Or, include the meaning of family and how society’s definition of family often runs counter to how people actually behave. These are familiar themes for fans of Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s work, but here, they are packaged in a story that might be his strongest and most accessible yet. A crew of petty thieves and day labourers find a pre-schooler who appears to be abused. The older man, Osamu (Lily Franky, right), wants to give shelter to the girl, but the others in the group say she should be returned to her family. The film also stars Kirin Kiki (far right). John Lui JJANG WEDNESDAY PHOTOS: GOLDEN Fans of South Korean films should VILLAGE keep their Wednesdays free because one new Korean movie will be screened every hump day for six consecutive weeks, from now until the middle of next month. One of the films is crime thriller The Vanished (2018), about the mysterious disappearance of a powerful woman’s corpse from the morgue. Another is romantic comedy What A Man Wants (2018, right, with Lee El and Shin Ha-kyun), about how a married taxi driver’s cheating ways start to rub off on his brother-in-law. HONG KONG FILM FESTIVAL Better yet, all of them will be Sounds like a “jjang” (Korean slang In Hong Kong director Peter Chan’s showing in their original Cantonese for awesome) line-up. popular gender-bending comedy, soundtracks. WHERE: Golden Village Plaza, 07-01 Who’s The Woman, Who’s The Man? WHERE: Golden Village Tiong Bahru, Plaza Singapura, 68 Orchard Road; times ADMISSION: $13 from (1996), top Hong Kong stars Anita 04-105 Tiong Bahru Plaza, 302 and Golden Village Tiong Bahru, www.gv.com.sg and Yuen as well as the late Leslie Tiong Bahru Road MRT: Tiong Bahru 04-105 Tiong Bahru Plaza, 302 Tiong at Golden Village box offices Cheung (both above) and Anita Mui WHEN: July 26 to Aug 1, various Bahru Road MRT: Orchard/Tiong get entangled in a complex love times ADMISSION: $13 to $16 from Bahru WHEN: Till Aug 15, various Yip Wai Yee triangle. www.gv.com.sg and at Golden The film opens the Hong Kong Film Village box offices Festival, which will screen seven acclaimed works from the city. Yip Wai Yee FILMS ADMISSION: $13.50 (standard), Marlina The Level 1 Marina Mandarin Singapore, $11.50 (concession), $10.50 Murderer 6 Raffles Boulevard MRT: Promenade (Singapore Film Society members) In Four Acts WHEN: Sun, noon - 4pm Singapore Shorts ’18: INFO: theprojector.sg stars Marsha ADMISSION: Free TEL: 6845-1018 Asian Film Archive INFO: E-mail events.marina@ Timothy. PHOTO: This is the inaugural edition of an meritushotels.com Ryuichi Sakamoto: SINGAPORE annual showcase celebrating the Coda (2017, PG) INTERNATIONAL best and the most promising Quayside’s Sunday Floral From techno-pop stardom to FILM FESTIVAL Singapore short films in a cinematic Oscar-winning film composer, the Market setting. The three-day programme evolution of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s On the last Sunday of every month, will feature 14 official selections music has coincided with his life Hello Flowers will set up a pop-up from an earlier call for submissions journeys. Following the Fukushima flower stall to sell bespoke featuring family-centric themes and nuclear disaster, Sakamoto became arrangements using seasonal blooms trending social issues. A curation of an iconic figure in Japan’s social including roses, peonies, tulips and the Asian Film Archive’s (AFA) older movement against nuclear power. As lavenders. There is also a D-I-Y films, titled Singapore Day/Night: he returns to music following a cancer potpourri station featuring an assortment of dried petals and Selections From The AFA Collection, diagnosis, his haunting awareness of organic essential oils, as well as floral will show how Singapore was life crises leads to a resounding new Paws For A Good Cause At City Fun With Birds & Butterflies arrangement workshops. portrayed through the lens of masterpiece. Square Mall The ongoing Every Singaporean A WHERE: Main courtyard, Quayside, film-makers in the early 2000s. WHERE: Green Room, The Projector, Together with key pet welfare Naturalist (ESN) programme aims to 60 Robertson Quay MRT: Fort There will also be post-screening Level 5 Golden Mile Tower, 6001 associations, City Square Mall and raise a new generation of naturalists Canning WHEN: July 29, 11am - 4pm discussions with film-makers and Beach Road MRT: Nicoll Highway Quayside Isle at Sentosa Cove are in selected schools. The students ADMISSION: Free; bouquets from $25 reviews by film professionals. WHEN: July 28, 8.20pm; Aug 11, hosting a series of adoption drives for actively monitor their school INFO: thequayside.sg WHERE: Gallery Theatre, National 8.30pm ADMISSION: $13.50 more than 70 dogs and cats. The next compounds for birds and butterflies. Museum of Singapore, 93 Stamford (standard), $11.50 (concession) one will be at City Square Mall with Meet them at the Botanic Gardens Road MRT: Bras Basah/Dhoby INFO: theprojector.sg Purely Adoptions. and check out the birds and LAST CALL Ghaut WHEN: Today, 7.30 - 9pm, WHERE: Fountain Square, Basement 1 butterflies there. The tour will be led Wanna One World Tour tomorrow & Sun, 3 - 5pm City Square Mall, 180 Kitchener Road by guides from the Bird Group and NATURE K-pop boyband Wanna One will ADMISSION: Free, register at Butterfly and Insect Group of the MRT: Farrer Park WHEN: Aug 4, 10am - perform their first full-scale concert singaporeshorts18.peatix.com Nature Society (Singapore). 4pm ADMISSION: Free here. Despite debuting less than a INFO: Go to bit.ly/ Chek Jawa Wetlands Tour INFO: citysquaremall.com.sg WHERE: Singapore Botanic Gardens, singaporeshorts2018 for Discover Chek Jawa’s six ecosystems year ago, the 11-member group 1 Cluny Road MRT: Botanic Gardens have garnered wins at major local programme line-up and the diverse animal species that WHEN: July 21, 8 - 10.30am and international music award inhabit these unique habitats. Guided TOURS ADMISSION: Free, register by ceremonies. Faces Places (2017, PG13) tours are conducted on days when Civic District Tree Trail tomorrow for children four - 15 years WHERE: Singapore Indoor Stadium, This documentary (in French with the tide recedes to 0.5m and below This trail takes participants through old at tinyurl.com/nsskidsevent2; 2 Stadium Walk MRT: Stadium English subtitles) was nominated for at least two hours, when the Singapore’s historic Civic District priority for Nature Society (Singapore) WHEN: Today, 8pm ADMISSION: $128 - for Best Documentary Feature at intertidal flats are revealed. members INFO: E-mail Gloria on where they can marvel at many $348, tickets from apactix.com last year’s Academy Awards. WHERE: Open Lawn, Chek Jawa [email protected] Film-maker Agnes Varda and Visitor Centre, Pulau Ubin WHEN: Tue majestic and interesting trees, some of which have witnessed the Rain Forest Tour photographer JR document & Wed, 8 - 10am ADMISSION: $60, Monthly Storytelling @ transformation and progress of Learn about Singapore’s tropical their heart-warming journey register at www.nparks.gov.sg Cluny Court Singapore through the years. rainforests with volunteer guides in through rural France and the INFO: E-mail [email protected], Cluny Court’s next monthly WHERE: Entrance of the Istana, this one-hour tour. Mandarin tours unlikely friendship they formed muhammad_shahrin_merman@ storytelling session, in Orchard Road MRT: Dhoby Ghaut are available only for the 10am and along the way. nparks.gov.sg or collaboration with The Storytelling WHEN: July 29, 9 - 10.30am 4pm slots. WHERE: GV Paya Lebar, 03-107 [email protected] Centre, will feature the classic tale, ADMISSION: Free WHERE: Visitor Services Desk at SingPost Centre, 10 Eunos Road 8 The Ugly Duckling. INFO: www.nparks.gov.sg Nassim Gate, Singapore Botanic MRT: Paya Lebar WHEN: Wed, 9pm PETS WHERE: Level 2 Cluny Court, 501 Bukit Gardens, 1 Cluny Road MRT: Botanic ADMISSION: Singapore Film Society Timah Road MRT: Botanic Gardens Gardens WHEN: Tomorrow, 9am - membership, from $18 a month KIDS WHEN: July 22, noon - 12.30pm 4pm (hourly; register 15 minutes TEL: 9017-0160 INFO: E-mail Basic Obedience Foundation ADMISSION: Free (suitable for earlier) ADMISSION: Free INFO: E-mail [email protected] Class For Dogs Kids Craft Series: Crafting With children ages three - seven) nparks_sbg_visitor_services@ Conducted by Action for Singapore Leaves TEL: 6467-6077 INFO: E-mail nparks.gov.sg Marlina The Murderer In Four Dogs (ASD), the class covers the Children aged five to 12 will create art [email protected] Acts (2018, M18) Amichien Bonding principles, which using botanical finds from around the • The listings on these Happenings In the deserted hills of an can help to create the foundation gardens, such as a collage of the OTHERS pages are free. 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