[Reellife] When Marnie was Here...

[dave olsen]

Here's another stunning Japanese animated film that your children (and you!) 
will love.

This film takes full advantage of its medium: with time altered and age never 
changing.  You may not even notice until the end...but when you do, you'll 
appreciate the twist.

Anna is a troubled, civilized child whose pain shows itself through asthma.  
She's polite, hard at working and innately social like all of us but when her 
breathing won't allow her to function fully, she is sent to her Aunt and Uncle's 
place out of the city.

Her Uncle may be the only Japanese character in the film and the setting is 
gorgeous.  And soon, Anna's troubles will all be explained.../When Marnie Was 
Here <http://www.viff.org/theatre/films/fc8477-when-marnie-was-there>/.

Most screenings are in Japanese with English subtitles, but if you go on the 
nights that the film is dubbed in English, other than a few bows that may seem 
unusual, you'd never know that the animators were Japanese, because all the 
characters are whiter than white. Studio Ghibli are astonishing accomplished 
animators, but they are also amazingly consistent in only creating perfectly 
white characters, be that as it may.

/When Marnie Was Here 
<http://www.viff.org/theatre/films/fc8477-when-marnie-was-there>/ will screen at 
the Vancity Theatre <http://www.viff.org/theatre/> starting tomorrow!

*Fri May 29 @ 6:30pm
Sat May 30 @ 4:00pm
Sun May 31 @ 3:00pm English Dub
Mon Jun 1 @ 6:30pm
Tue Jun 2 @ 4:30pm English Dub
Thu Jun 4 @ 6:30pm
Sat Jun 6 @ 4:15pm*
*Sat Jun 13 @ 1:45pm
Sun Jun 14 @ 3:45pm*

-- 

Warmly,
dave/
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