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- First reviewAugust 14, 2009
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Laugh-out-loud funny, elegant and sophisticated
PostedAugust 14, 2009
Syrith
from Brooklyn, NY
What a beautiful film!
Attended a midnight NYC showing, and the small audience was laughing, "awwww"-ing, and then clapping at the end for this latest gem from Hayao Miyazaki.
Of the director's films, only Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, and Howl's Moving Castle struck me as deeply as this tale - it's among his best work. The visual style is a watery, shifting aesthetic that is hypnotic and matches the younger-audience tone of the overt story, while the subtext is as sophisticated for adults as those in Mononoke or Nausicaa.
I loved it. Miyazaki seamlessly blends reality and fantasy, prehistory and modernity, childishness and maturity, from frame to frame, and you're taken right along for the ride.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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