Arrietty (2010)
(Kari-gurashi no Arietti)
Country: JAP
Technical: col 94m
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Cast: animation
Synopsis:
A sickly boy is taken by his grandmother to the family home once occupied by her husband, and there discovers the family of thumbsized 'borrowers' his grandfather had longed to meet. But his very discovery places them in jeopardy.
Review:
Softly animated children's tale in the Japanese style, lending the Borrowers story a more environmental slant whereby the fragility of the boy is reflected in the precarious fate of the little people. There is refreshingly little peril, compared to US animated features, and the film ends as quietly as it began, with the sense of a shared experience neither Arrietty nor Shô will forget as long as they live.
(Kari-gurashi no Arietti)
Country: JAP
Technical: col 94m
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Cast: animation
Synopsis:
A sickly boy is taken by his grandmother to the family home once occupied by her husband, and there discovers the family of thumbsized 'borrowers' his grandfather had longed to meet. But his very discovery places them in jeopardy.
Review:
Softly animated children's tale in the Japanese style, lending the Borrowers story a more environmental slant whereby the fragility of the boy is reflected in the precarious fate of the little people. There is refreshingly little peril, compared to US animated features, and the film ends as quietly as it began, with the sense of a shared experience neither Arrietty nor Shô will forget as long as they live.
(Kari-gurashi no Arietti)
Country: JAP
Technical: col 94m
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Cast: animation
Synopsis:
A sickly boy is taken by his grandmother to the family home once occupied by her husband, and there discovers the family of thumbsized 'borrowers' his grandfather had longed to meet. But his very discovery places them in jeopardy.
Review:
Softly animated children's tale in the Japanese style, lending the Borrowers story a more environmental slant whereby the fragility of the boy is reflected in the precarious fate of the little people. There is refreshingly little peril, compared to US animated features, and the film ends as quietly as it began, with the sense of a shared experience neither Arrietty nor Shô will forget as long as they live.