Little White Lies

The Boy and the Heron

Directed by HAYAO MIYAZAKI

Starring SOMA SANTOKI, MASAKI SUDA, TAKUYA KIMURA

Released 26 DECEMBER

may or may not be Hayao Miyazaki’s last film. The 82-year-old Studio Ghibli head previously announced his retirement after completing in 1997, in 2001, and in 2013. But at the Toronto International Film Festival, a colleague of the great is richly self-synthesising and achingly sentimental, collating artistic motifs from across the Miyazaki filmography and nakedly articulating the hopes it places in the next generation.

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