Monday Cinema – Evil Does Not Exist

Trail & District Arts Council’s MONDAY CINEMA presents Evil Does Not Exist at The Royal Theatre, 1597 Bay Avenue, Trail on Monday, November 25 at 4 pm.

Writer-director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s much anticipated follow-up to the Oscar-winning Drive My Car traces the sensitive dispute between residents of a serene rural village and the city-based talent agency whose proposed plans for a luxury camping site threaten their way of life.

As with his previous film, Hamaguchi has once again crafted a modern fable with mythic implications springing from the mundane, as rote bureaucratic efforts towards understanding patiently crescendo to a cosmic meditation on our place in the universe.

Evil Does Not Exist feels wholly singular in the way it depicts classical themes of nature versus industry and will give audiences much to ponder.

Awards: Grand Jury Prize, Venice Film Festival (2023)

Content Advisory Brief violence

Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi / Featuring: Hitoshi Omika, Ryo Nishikawa, Ryuji Kosaka / Japan /Japanese / 106 minutes / Rating: Not Yet Rated

“This is an instant-masterpiece worthy of intense debate in which every side will have a valid point.” – Globe and Mail
“Hamaguchi gives us characters who are too complicated and richly drawn to be reduced to any one type.” – NPR

The Monday Cinema series is part of the Toronto International Film Festival Film Circuit and is presented by Trail and District Arts Council at The Royal Theatre, 1597 Bay Avenue, Trail.
All films begin at 4:00 pm.

Tickets $13 at tickets.trail-arts.com or call the Box Office at 250-368-9669 Monday to Friday from 12-4 pm.
Only 143 tickets are available for this screening. If tickets are available, they will go on sale at the venue when the doors open 30 minutes before the screening.