2014 ‘思い出のマーニー’ Directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi
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.
Studio Ghibli Hakuhodo DY Media Partners KDDI Corporation Mitsubishi Motors Corporation Nippon Television Network Corporation
Omoide no Mânî, Коли Мані була тут, Kada je Marni bila tu, Omoide no Mani, Спогади Мані, Коли Марні була тут, Marnie – min hemmelige venninne
CW: indirect abuse reference
It's so easy to feel like you don't have a family. One small thing, one small moment, can rupture bonds that we're told hold tighter and stronger than any other. Family is so fragile, because the promise inherent in every story told about families is so profound. Anything can shatter that impossible illusion. It can be the perception that your mother is being paid to have you, or it can be the way your father yelled that one time, or it can be... worse things. For queer or trans kids, of course, all other things being equal, family tends to be even more fragile than for straight and cisgender kids. Surrounded by images that tell us…
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It’s fitting that the last Studio Ghibli film for the foreseeable future is a simple, elegiac story about a young woman who learns the power of *drawing* from the past.
no, it's not Miyazaki or Takahata, but it's the next best thing.
on my way out of the movie, I saw an old woman walk directly into a wall because she was crying so hard. she seemed okay.
#FrozenFever
I saw When Marnie Was There this morning. By evening I was on my way to the theater to see it again. That's a first for me.
It wasn't just that my local cinema provided both dubbed and subtitled screenings. Sure, I wanted to see both versions. But more than that, I wanted to return to the world of this movie because it stirred some deep nerve cluster that connected my childhood to my adulthood. That's a quality that I've found time and time again in Studio Ghibli's films.
I hope this isn't their last. I really do. But if it is, as sad as that is, I'll remain grateful for this last flare of color, motion, sound, and the…
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Studio Ghibli were sitting around their office wondering what they should do next.
"Hey I got one."
*yawning*
"Yeah, go on then."
"How about we make one of the most precise, identifiable and moving films about social anxiety and childhood displacement ever made. One that treats children with respect and will also speak to all the adults watching."
"Ahh, what the hell. Let's do it."
And they did. Absolutely wonderful.
Hiromasa Yonebayashi's 2014 When Marnie Was There, based on Joan G. Robinson novel of the same name, follows Anna, a young girl who temporarily moves to Norfolk to heal after becoming ill. There she meets a mysterious girl named Marnie who lives in a house overlooking the marshes and quickly develops a unique bond with her.
Going into any Ghibli film, we've all come to expect deeper, more meaningful messages from every entry and When Marnie Was There is once again no different. Dealing with friendship, loneliness, abandonment and forgiveness, the film truly puts into perspective the struggles of adolescence really well. It's fair to say there isn't much that surprises me about films to do with adolescence, I've lived…
Why was I born in an era where when I’m unwell I have to go to unaffordable doctor’s offices instead of being sent away to relatives’ homes along the coast? My aunt and uncle literally have a home on Guemes Island. I feel robbed.
An earnest depiction of childhood isolation, anxiety, and inner turmoil, When Marnie Was There finds a way to dissect its complex emotions into mostly tangible scenarios, easy for adults to relate to and simple enough for children to identify with.
The film didn’t quite “work” for me until the twist was revealed and then I felt myself settle in for that final act quite well. Until that point, I found myself weirdly on edge!
All the same, a lovely story with a beautiful message.
i really liked it. i identified with anna too much bc i know what it is like to feel abandoned by important people without knowing why, and these things still hunting me so bad after a long time. i know what it's like to be an introvert and lonely person and feel what it's like to lose things happening around you.
and yes, i thought it was a gay movie.
Absolutely mesmerizing. This film shook to my core. I never thought that loneliness could be depicted as such a raw and uncomfortable feeling like in this piece, but here we are.
This movie is so well-made, the visuals are fantastic, the art is super cohesive throughout the whole runtime and the story is very well-written. The characters are interesting and misterious but without becoming a satire of themselves.
I will, however, say that the beginning of Marnie and Anna's friendship felt a little bit rushed at times. And that made hard to connect at first glance. It felt more like a romance at first than a friendship (which I don't think was the idea), but it corrected its course with time.
I adore this and I will be watching it again.
Has many touching and sad moments, which is enough to remind me of how great Studio Ghibli can be and I really do wish that When Marnie Was There is not the final film to come out of that studio.
Blog Review: www.skonmovies.com/2015/06/my-thoughts-on-when-marnie-was-there.html
Feels a little too neatly wrapped up and artificial in its final stretch yet still managed to make me tear up at the very end. Very cute and rewarding despite the issues I have with it.
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