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Anora 2024
I usually am quite skeptical when a movie is named after a character because it often ends up being more event-driven than character driven. But I like the way Anora told the story of Ani through her different layers, starting from her HQ persona, to the Cinderella dreaming girl, all the way to perhaps the identity she would reclaim as Anora. That last part remains unsolved. The movie ends with her still closed off to talking about her origins, or…
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Mirai 2018
I was reading the director Mamoru Hosoda’s biography that described his journey in the Japanese animation world: how he had applied for a training programme at Ghibli studio and had gotten his application denied, before letting go of an opportunity to work with Ghibli Studios following disagreements on creative freedom. This did not surprise me at all watching the movie, observing just how much the director projected his own style on screen: a modern, blunt and stripped-down coming of age…
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