2018 · fantasy · drama · family
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
Directed by Mari Okada1h 55m2018
Fleeing the war, the immortal Machia, graced with eternal youth, finds a baby abandoned in the forest and decides to raise it as her own child, sparking a moving story between a mortal and a being who does not age.
Our read: Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms (2018) reads as a neutral, steady, inventive fantasy · drama · family entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured fantasy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender.
- tender
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