BELLE 12A TBC
Feb 03, 2022
3 minutes
KEVIN HARLEY
★★★★★ OUT 4 FEBRUARY CINEMAS
Studio Chizu’s Mamoru Hosoda edged close to Studio Ghibli’s anime heights in 2018 with the Oscar-nominated , a homely and heartfelt twist on . Four years on, Hosoda closes the gap with his radical variant on another classic tale, . Between story, soundtrack and sumptuous world-building, the Japanese writer/director’s immersive cyber-fable envelops you in colour, feeling and emo-pop epiphanies: even before the speaker-encrusted whales fly into view, asserts itself as a feast for the heart and senses, mounted in dazzling shows of
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