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POMPO: THE CINEPHILE 12A

★★★☆☆ OUT 29 JUNE CINEMAS

Movies about making movies come in many flavours. Some are deep (½), some dizzy others pure While director Takayuki Hirao stresses dazzle over depth in his anime entry, he invests this lively love letter to film with droll humour and glee: a giddy affection for cinema pops out of every manic frame.

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