Rude to Love(Ai ni ranbou)

Momoko is an exemplar of the Japanese housewife: she scrupulously maintains her home, attends to her husband assiduously, and even lives adjacent to her mother-in-law. But years of neglecting herself and suppressing her emotions are taking their toll. When a serial arsonist strikes, setting trash fires in the neighborhood, a spark is lit within her. Based on the novel of the same title by Yoshida Shuichi, Morigaki’s latest is a disquieting domestic thriller on the edge of full nervous breakdown, committed to examining the effects of an oppressive domesticity and the lengths required for a psyche to unravel.

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival: In Competition