![]() ![]() There, in the picturesque seaside town, Anna’s fixation to a vacant mansion across the marsh, a place she claims is familiar, influences her dreams. After suffering from an asthma attack, Anna spends the summer with relatives in the country where the air is cleaner. Sensitive to the idea of being a secondhand child and the possibility that her foster family’s love may not be genuine, Anna keeps her distance and draws in a sketchbook to ease her self-hate. The film follows Anna, a 12-year-old girl emotionally estranged from her peers and foster parents. ![]() Yonebayashi’s final animation under Ghibli, as well as the rumored last production of the legendary studio, When Marnie Was There brings the audience through a journey of childhood imagination and memory that renders the magical possibilities of the human psyche, and does not disappoint. Instead, it keeps us rooted in the natural world without losing the fanciful finesse Studio Ghibli is more greatly known for. SeptemDirector Hiromasa Yonebayashi’s animated film When Marnie Was There does not set us in a moving castle powered by a fire demon, or a spirit bathhouse owned by a witch with a beak nose. ![]()
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