When Marnie Was There (2014)
Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may or may not be real.
When Marnie Was There (2014)
Information
Released Year: 2014
Runtime: 103 minutes
Directors: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Casts: Yo Oizumi, Ken Yasuda, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Susumu Terajima, Nanako Matsushima, Hitomi Kuroki, Sara Takatsuki, Kasumi Arimura, Toshie Negishi, Ryôko Moriyama, Hiroyuki Morisaki, Takuma Otoo, Hana Sugisaki, Bari Suzuki, Shigeyuki Totsugi
Storyline
Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may or may not be real.
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Reviews
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Entertainment Weekly -
The animation is dazzling.
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Variety -
Yonebayashi’s open-hearted tale, more than any other Ghibli offering, could conceivably have worked just as well in live-action, and yet the tender story gains so much from the studio’s delicate, hand-crafted approach.
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Village Voice -
At its most beautiful, Yonebayashi's picture is about the magic of female friendship at its purest.
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The Dissolve -
It’s a quiet film of modest narrative ambitions and simple shifts. But its technical and visual ambitions couldn’t be higher. It’s as if Ghibli is still trying to raise its own bar, so that even if it’s going out, it’s reminding viewers what they’d be missing.
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Los Angeles Times -
It deals with friendship, loneliness, abandonment and forgiveness, and though its curious narrative arc means you're never sure exactly where it's going, the film works up a considerable emotional charge by the end.
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Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may or may not be real.
Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may or may not be real.
Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may or may not be real.
Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may or may not be real.