Enchanting, startling; a rare story about a girl at a precarious age. Full of that exquisite Studio Ghibli sorcery that captures the beauty of the ordinary. I’m “biast” (pro): love Studio Ghibli’s films
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
It’s another enchanting animated film from Studio Ghibli, but this one is really special. Less overtly fantastical than some of Ghibli’s other projects — though it’s still primarily a ghost story — When Marnie Was There is grounded in an adolescent reality that we almost never see onscreen: that girls have a rough time, too, in the transition from childhood to adulthood, and in finding a path through conflicting and confusing emotions to our own true identities.
The details of her pain are doled out slowly, over the course of her story,...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
It’s another enchanting animated film from Studio Ghibli, but this one is really special. Less overtly fantastical than some of Ghibli’s other projects — though it’s still primarily a ghost story — When Marnie Was There is grounded in an adolescent reality that we almost never see onscreen: that girls have a rough time, too, in the transition from childhood to adulthood, and in finding a path through conflicting and confusing emotions to our own true identities.
The details of her pain are doled out slowly, over the course of her story,...
- 2/3/2016
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
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