2010 · animation · family · fantasy
The Secret World of Arrietty
Directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi1h 34m2010
14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items "borrowed" from the house's human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty.
Our read: The Secret World of Arrietty (2010) reads as a warm, measured, inventive animation · family · fantasy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, measured, gentle animation / family, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- warm
- measured
- tender
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