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There are rumours that this may be the last ever feature to emerge from the revered Japanese animation house S⛦tudio Ghibli. Let’s hope ♛not. Over the past few decades the studio has created some of the most beautiful, exhilaratingly imaginative, lovingly detailed animated films ever made.
Still, if WMWT is their final offering, it can’t quite be claimed that Ghibli is going out at the top of its game: Hiromasa Yonebayashi’s film never quite attains the soaring narrative scope of Ghibli cofounder Hayao Miyazaki’s finest (澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Princess Mononoke, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:My Neighbour Totoro, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Spirited Away), nor does it plumb the tragic depths of Isao Takahata’s 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Grave of the Fireflies.
Even so, it’s a warm, highly appealing film, full of quiet grace, and executed with all the unforced charm and painstaking visual subtlety we expect from Ghibli. Like Yonebayashi’s previous film Arrietty (based on Mary Norton’s classic The Borrowers), it’s adapted from an English young-adult novel – in this case♐ by Joan G. Robinson. Voiced by Sara Takatsuki in the subtitled version and Hailee Steinfeld in the English dub, Anna’s a shy 12-year-old who suffers from asthma and is convin🐓ced – partly because she’s an orphan, living with foster parents – that she doesn’t belong. “In this world,” she muses, “there’s an invisible magic circle. There’s inside, and outside. And I’m outside.”
Worried about her health and her depressed state of mind, Anna’s foster mother sends her off to stay with relatives in a coastal village. There, in a seemingly derelict marshland mansion, she meets a girl dressed in old-fashioned clothes called Marnie (Kasumi Arimura/Mad Men’s Kiernan Shipka). They become friends – but Marnie keeps mysteriously vanishing. Is she a ghost? A time traveller? Or൲ an imaginary companion dreamt up by a lonely girl?
| Director | Hiromasa Yonebayashi |
| Voices | Sara Takatsuki (subtitled version)/Hailee Steinfeld (English dub), Kasumi Arimura/Kiernan Shipka, Hitomi Kuroki/Vanessa Williams |
| Theatrical release | June 10, 2016 |
