2001 · animation · drama
Millennium Actress
Directed by Satoshi Kon1h 27m2001
Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a key she had lost and thought was gone forever, the filmmaker could not have imagined that it would not only unlock the long-held secrets of Chiyoko’s life... but also his own.
Our read: Millennium Actress (2001) reads as a warm, kinetic, surreal animation · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, kinetic, measured animation / drama, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- inventive
- signature
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