Movie Review: Borrowing From The Style of An Animation Mentor ...

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Wide Release

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Opens Feb 17

Animator Hiromasa Yonebayashi has worked with Hayao Miyazaki (Howl?s Moving Castle, Spirited Away) since the great Japanese filmmaker?s Princess Mononoke, and it takes only a glance at Yoneayashi?s first directorial project, The Secret World of Arrietty, to see the continuity of Studio Ghibli?s appealing and unmistakable visual style.

Arrietty (Bridgit Mendler) is a spirited 14-year old girl who lives with her father and mother in the floorboards of a house outsideTokyo. They are ?borrowers,? and for generations, their kind have lived in a symbiotic relationship with human beings, taking small items ? sugar cubes, tissues, garden leaves ? that sustain their existence. Their largely peaceful existence (save occasional attacks from the housecat) is interrupted with the arrival of a sickly boy, Sho (David Henrie) who notices Arrietty in the garden, and then again, one night when she is out collecting items with her father. Sho, lonely and kind, seeks Arrietty?s friendship, but soon the adults in the house begin to suspect that the little people exist. That means the borrowers are forced to leave.

This scenario, based on the novel by Mary Norton, allows Yonebayashi to explore a creature-comfort world akin to Beatrice Potter?s stories, and much of the fun of Arrietty is just being in the world of the borrowers, creeping through walls and rappelling down cupboards. Unlike Miyazai, Yonebayashi?s fairy tale doesn?t transgress into the darkly innocence or spiritually fantastic, which means Arrietty isn?t as transcendent a film as his mentor?s. But Arrietty is strong-hearted, and it wraps into its sweet and entertaining fairy tale fitted with the pains and joys that force the maturation.

Source: http://frontrow.dmagazine.com/2012/02/movie-review-borrowing-from-the-style-of-an-animation-mentor/

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