Today’s Schedule for L.A. International Film Festival
The American Film Institute Los Angeles International Film Festival opens today for two weeks at the Cineplex Odeon Century Plaza Cinemas. Here is today’s schedule:
‘The Yen Family’
Japan, 1988, 113 minutes
8:25 p.m.
Yojiro Takita’s hilarious satire on a suburban family so money-grubbing that it runs a newspaper distributorship and a catering service--both exploiting the elderly--right out of the kitchen (where the mother is also operating her erotic wake-up service while she prepares breakfast). As the film becomes increasingly outrageous it develops considerable complexity, and its indictment of materialism, Japanese-style, is often ironic and paradoxical. Like Takita’s earlier “Comic Magazine,” a corrosive satire on the excesses of the media, “The Yen Family” is a swift, satisfying treat. RECOMMENDED
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