2018 · fantasy · animation · family
Mirai
Directed by Mamoru Hosoda1h 38m2018
Unhappy after his new baby sister displaces him, four-year-old Kun begins meeting people and pets from his family's history in their unique house in order to help him become the big brother he was meant to be.
Our read: Mirai (2018) reads as a cosy, steady, inventive fantasy · animation · family entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, steady, gentle fantasy / animation, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
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- tender
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How Mirai feels to watch.
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“You want gentle time-travel magic about a jealous little brother.”
Skip it tonight — You need fast plot; this wanders through childhood moods.
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