![]() Then she meets a mysterious blonde girl living in a vast house on a marsh. She’s convinced they don’t love her because she’s ugly, unpleasant, and damaged, and when her adoptive mother (whom she calls “Auntie” exclusively) sends her to the country for a short period to improve her asthma, Anna believes she’s being dumped out of spite. In this adaptation, the orphan is Anna Sasaki, a withdrawn, asthmatic schoolgirl stricken with self-loathing after she learns that her adoptive parents are receiving a government stipend for her care. Robinson’s 1967 novel about an orphan who befriends a mysterious stranger. Marnie, like Ghibli’s The Secret World Of Arrietty and Howl’s Moving Castle before it, is based on a beloved British children’s book-in this case, Joan G. If the studio has to cut back from here, at least it’s set yet another high-water mark before the tides recede. But this time, the images seem particularly lustrous, the colors especially rich. Like so many Ghibli features, Marnie is an accomplished animated showcase. It’s just hard to imagine that a reduced studio staff could keep up the lavish, loving quality of When Marnie Was There, the last movie on Ghibli’s animation docket. It’s still possible there will eventually be more Ghibli features. Ghibli reps have clarified that the studio isn’t going away, it’s just reorganizing and reducing staff, a necessary business reality given that Ghibli’s Miyazaki-directed movies far out-earned its non-Miyazaki movies. “When Marnie Was There” will be released on May 22.There’s been plenty of fuss and fury over the possible shutdown of Japan’s revered Studio Ghibli following the retirement of its founding animators, Hayao Miyazaki ( My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, The Wind Rises) and Isao Takahata ( Grave Of The Fireflies, The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya). ![]() ![]() Women and Hollywood included Studio Ghibli’s “The Tale of the Princess Kaguya” in our list of 2014’s best films about women, writing that the film “reminds us what we’ll lose with Studio Ghibli’s imminent closure: wonderfully complex movies about girls from Japan’s premiere animation studio.”Īt least we have one more wonderfully complex movie about a girl from the studio to look forward to. Rumors have been swirling about Studio Ghibli figurehead Hayao Miyazaki retiring, and the studio has revealed that it will likely shut down or restructure when Miyazaki departs. Joining Steinfeld and Shipka in the voice cast for the English-language version of the film are Vanessa Williams, Geena Davis, Kathy Bates, Ellen Burstyn, Catherine O’Hara, Grey Griffin (“Avatar: The Last Airbender”), Ava Acres (“Adventure Time”) and Raini Rodriguez (“Girl in Progress”). Marnie begs Anna, “Promise me something - that we’ll remain a secret forever.” The trailer suggests Marnie is hiding a secret of her own, but Anna “doesn’t care who Marnie really is” and only focuses on helping her. This spot for the movie focuses on the complicated and intense friendship that Anna, who very much identifies as an outsider, strikes up with Marnie. After discovering a mansion that seems eerily familiar to her, Anna finds some unexpected company in the form of a mysterious girl named Marnie (Kiernan Shipka,”Mad Men”). ![]() Robinson’s young-adult book of the same name, focuses on Anna (Hailee Steinfeld), an orphan whose foster parents send her to the country. “When Marnie Was There,” an adaptation of Joan G. A trailer has been released for Studio Ghibli’s latest feature, which unfortunately may also be its last.
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