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When Marnie Was There
The life of Annie, a young beautiful and smart girl, who for health reasons, has been sent to a distant village, has been changed completely, when she befriends a weird young girl named Marine, with whom she spent most of her time, till she finds out her dark secrets.
3 April 1973, Ebetsu, Hokkaido, Japan
3 July 1959
18 January 1948, Tokyo, Japan
12 November 1963, Tokyo, Japan
18 March 1963, Tarrytown, New York, USA
11 December 1996, Tarzana, Los Angeles, California, USA
March 21, 1976 in Asahikawa, Japan
7 November 1973, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
28 May 1981, Biloxi, Mississippi, USA
June 04, 2015
To those film lovers attuned to quiet moments and emotional nuance, this film has a shine all its own. The old-school hand-drawn animation celebrates sweeping landscapes and but also the telling detail, revealing character through spare gestures.
June 04, 2015
While not a masterpiece, it is beautiful, nonetheless.
June 13, 2016
Although more sombre than some of the studio's biggest hits, it has in spades the gorgeous, painstaking animation that has become Ghibli's trademark.
August 09, 2016
The quasi-Sapphic intensity of Anna and Marnie's relationship - recalling Ghost World or a benign Heavenly Creatures - is poetically and sensitively handled.
October 16, 2016
Enigma takes second place to a sensitive exploration of adolescent turmoil and self-discovery, made even more beautiful and bittersweet by the film's delicate hand-drawn animation.
June 04, 2015
Dramatically unworthy of its gorgeous coastal landscapes and ever-shifting light.
June 17, 2016
Japan's Studio Gibli has been responsible for some of the finest animated movies in recent decades, from 2003's Oscar-winning Spirited Away to last year's beautiful The Tale of the Princess Kaguya.
June 04, 2015
Yonebayashi has touched on the greater mystery underlying everyday life, a world pulsing with wonder and possibility, edged with a shadow of melancholy.
June 04, 2015
This is a film defined by patience and attention, an adventure of emotional exploration.
June 11, 2015
It's a kid's movie that grown-ups will like. As Marnie does on Anna, the movie casts a spell.
December 18, 2016
Hiromasa Yonebayashi's film maintains the Ghibli traditions of elegant pastoral animation and nuanced emotional themes.

